Tony, You confuse surplus-value production with surplus production. Only wage labor produces value and surplus value. I am not very interested in the transformation problem. Many of your other statements are not objectable to me, either. Paul Z. ************************************************************************* Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at ********************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, TonyTinker wrote: > Steve, Rakesh, and Paul Z: > > I hesitate to offer yet another endorsement of Steve Keen's arguments, but > feel obliged to chime-in after reading Paul Zarembka's demarcation rule > (suggesting that Steve should take his ball and play elsewhere). Giving > centrality to the capitalist mode of production (and therefore its > exploitative class relations) does not lead, inexorably, to attributing > surplus value production exclusively to wage labor (or make solving the > transformation problem of overriding importance for Marxists). ...
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