On Sat, 03 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Paul C, > > I proposed a manner of dealing with roads in OPE-L4969 (19 Feb) > Rakesh considered this acceptable...I think, from his response... does it > not deal with part of your question? > > I am not really happy with it. My feelings go along with those of charlie in his posting about the concept in marx as being primarily part of the polemic against feudalism. Applying it to modern economies with combinations of modes of production has the effect of promoting the distinction of whether labour produces private profit to an unduely high level whilst demoting the concept of whether the labour is socially productive. I am of the view that labour that does not produce Sraffian or von Neumann basic goods should count as unproductive in the material sense. This is the global set, productive for capital is a subset. I would not count labour in the arms industry as productive, since, from the standpoint of society as a whole, and even from the standpoint of capital as a whole it is unproductive. This was evident to Ford and Kellog. -- Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland 0141 330 3125 mobile:07946 476966 paul@cockshott.com http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/wpc/ http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/index.html
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