Rakesh, Are you sure you mean what you write below. It seems to deny Marx's grounds from revolutionary activity of the working class in circumstances in which productive forces develops (production of relative surplus value) and wages rise (e.g., through unionization). Both can occur, ALONG WITH a rising rate of exploitation. Therefore, rising exploitation would NOT be a basis of revolutionary activity. Strange, it seem to me. In fact, I think I never would have gotten into Marxism under such a narrow basis for revolutionary praxis. Paul ************************************************************************ Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at ********************* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka Rakesh Bhandari <rakeshb@stanford.edu> said, on 01/16/02: >on Marx's own >assumptions there can be no causal or moral teleogical grounds for the >revolutionary activity of the working class unless capitalism fails to >develop the productive forces and to raise the living standards of the >working class.
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