From: rakeshb@stanford.edu
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 14:03:41 EST
Quoting clyder@gn.apc.org: > This is an econmistic response. Why? It is predicated on the > continued existence of capitalism. What I am pointing out is that > a contradiction between private sector unproductive workers > and other workers is likely to come about when a socialist > government sets about abolishing the financial sector. Why? Wouldn't the freeing up of this labor time of unproductive workers create the opportunity for the reduction of the daily labor time required of both these formerly unproductive workers and productive workers? Moreover, since the basis for the automation of industrial labor would be greatly expanded in a socialist society as capital is dissuaded from labor saving innovation to the extent it only has to pay for labor power, not the full labor time of direct labor,shouldn't productive workers...by your logic...be in the vanguard against socialism? After all, aren't they the most likely to be automated out of a job? Yours, Rakesh
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