On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, you wrote: > > Marx's method is not logico historical. Marx is NOT in vol I > attempting to explain why one form of surplus value production came > to dominate historically over other forms. He assumes the free wage > labor form. This is already the mystery that confounds the free > wage-laboring class in its daily life. > > And the exploitation of free wage labor does not depend on violations > of PVE--you seem not to think that this is a theoretical > clarification of the greatest importance--but Marx never says that > the exploitation of free wage labor is in fact carried out in > accordance with PVE. > I think you are quite right here. -- 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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