>From Capitalism to Equality doesn't use the distinction between productive and unproductive labor. It does examine the economics of corporate bureaucracy and the sales effort (pp. 206-217). As far as I can see, the category of unproductive labor is not needed to discover the historical limit of capitalism. Marx straightened out Adam Smith's confused notion of productive labor, but he did not change its historical range, early capitalism in its struggle against still-existing feudal and absolutist economic relations and circuits. In the course of building a socialist economy, society will want to reduce many activities that are widespread under capitalism today. Perhaps a new distinction under the name of productive and unproductive labor will be helpful. It certainly won't define productive labor as labor that produces surplus value. Regards, Charles Andrews Web site for my book is at http://www.LaborRepublic.org Gerald_A_Levy wrote: > I've been looking through your book, _From Capitalism > to Equality: An Inquiry into the Laws of Economic > Change_ (Oakland, Needle Press, 2000) for a > discussion of productive and unproductive labor. > ... I didn't see any definitions of > these categories or discussion of this topic...
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