[OPE-L:7857] Re "Hic Rhodus, hic salta!"

From: Christopher Arthur (cjarthur@waitrose.com)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 10:45:48 EDT


Fred
>
>> >I am glad that you agree that Volume 1 is about the class relation between
>> >capitalists and workers.  Therefore, it is about the total surplus-value
>> >produced by the working class as a whole, right?
>> >
>>
>> No. It is more general than that. The issue of totals has not yet come up.
>
>We have agreed that Marx's theory in Volume 1 is about the total class
>relation between the capitalist class as a whole and the working class as
>a whole.  The most important aspect of this total class relation is the
>production of surplus-value by workers for capitalists.  Therefore, it
>seems to me that Volume 1 is about the total surplus-value produced by the
>working class as a whole.
>
>How could it not be?  How could Volume 1 be about the total class relation
>between capitalists and not be about the total surplus-value produced by
>the working class as a whole?
>
Hm. pity Marx is not around so you could ask him how he managed to discuss
the capital relation for hundreds of pages without mentioning total SV.
C

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