From: Tony Tinker (tonytinker@msn.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 16:34:20 EST
Re: your suggestion below, that MBA's are 'unproductive'. My criterion of productive is strictly one of 'surplus value' producing, and therefore contribute to the reproduction of capital (and thus the capital-labor relation of expropriation). And yes certainly, mercenaries (and probably state-financed troops -- state capital) would indeed qualify as productive as they are wage labor, form part of a wage labor market, and are productive of surplus value. This identification is important, because the wage relation (regarded in this manner) embodies the contradictions make the transformation of capitalism possible. Fraternally, Tony Tinker ----- Original Message ----- From: <clyder@gn.apc.org> To: <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:57 PM Subject: [OPE-L:8339] Re: Re: Re: Education and Value > Quoting Tony Tinker <TonyTinker@msn.com>: > (I assume that we agree that MBA's are now wage labor and therefore > > productive of surplus value). > > > > > > I would tend to doubt it. Much of what they do when they work > is surely unproductive. Getting a wage is not enough to make > labour productive or you would have to conclude that soldiers > are productive since they are the prototypical example of wage > labour. > >
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