Hello Nicky I agree with most of your 6885, but surely this is too hasty: >4. Labour power systematically produces 'actual' money only when it takes >the wage-form; the wage form is a Value-Form (of labour) necessitated by >the separation of workers from means of production. > LP cannot produce anything since it is a capacity and production is an activity. It is labour that produces, although under the direction of capital to be sure. Conversely it is LP that takes value form. Labour cannot; because it is the source/determination/cause/substance/represented/whatever of value. It is form-determined of course, because directed by capital, but it is itself in origin 'not-value', 'not-capital' as Marx says. (Here I disagree also with Geert's 6882 "Labour in capitalist process is also ideal value.") The distinction Marx makes betwen LP and L is very important, and correct, and should be carefully marked IMO. Comradely Chris 17 Bristol Road, Brighton, BN2 1AP, England
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