In [OPE-L:5121]: > Jerry > has said that because the infrastructure built for the state that > will not take the commodity form the surplus value incurred in its > construction have been wasted. My position is rather that if the surplus value is transferred to the state, then it is unproductively consumed. I.e. instead of using the s for productive investment in c & v it is spent instead as revenue. As for the wage-workers building the infrastructure it depends fundamentally on whether they are employed by capital or the state. It is important to remember that workers producing the same use-value can be either productive or unproductive (of s) depending on whether they are employed by capital to produce commodities. The infrastructure from a social perspective (from the standpoint of whether it contributes to an increase in social wealth) is not "waste". But the question is whether it represents additional value and wealth or wealth alone. In solidarity, Jerry
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