On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Rakesh, > > Yes, case by case indeed, but it seems pretty evident that the same road can > be used as part of the reproduction process generally and/or for private > (revenue) final - non capitalistic - use, as i said before. Neverthless, > even this argument cannot evade the fact that surplus labour is extorted in > the building of roads, railways etc and I see this labour process as all > productive.... otherwise we will be denying that all final consumption goods > production not aimed at reproducing constant or variable capital is > unproductive ( eg luxury good production) and this is clearly contrary to > Marx. > It may be clearly contrary to Marx, but I think we have to take the proposition seriously in the light of Sraffa and von-Neumanns work. -- 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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