Paul C., No, he did not sell labor power to a capitalist. (I'm not insulting your plumber, nor a slave or feudal serf who could have been told to do the same repair work -- if central heating were available.) Paul Z. *********************************************************************** Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at ******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka "Paul Cockshott" <paul@cockshott.com> said, on 10/24/00: >> Paul Z: >>Tony, You confuse surplus-value production with surplus production. Only >>wage labor produces value and surplus value. [Answering Tony who had written "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. P.Z.] >Paul C: >I hired a plumber to fix my central heating yesterday, did his (self >employed) labour create no value?
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