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 17 Bristol Road, Brighton, BN2 1AP, England
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