From: Michael Williams (michaelj.williams@TISCALI.CO.UK)
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 05:23:08 EST
A tendency exacerbated by modern information technology, one might add? michael > -----Original Message----- > From: OPE-L [mailto:OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU] On Behalf Of > Rakesh Bhandari > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:06 AM > To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > Subject: science > > > Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Vol I, p. 353 > > 'According to Hobbes *science*, not *operative labor*, is the > mother of the arts. > > "Arts of public use, as fortications, making of engines, and > other instruments of war; because they confer to defence, and > victory, are power; and though the true mother of them, be > *science, namely the mathematics*; yet because they are > brought into light by the hand of the artificer, they be > esteemed, the midwife passing with the vulgar for the mother, > as his issue" [Leviathan] > > The product of mental labor--science--always stands far below > its value, because the labor time needed to reproduce it has > no relation at all to the labor time required for its initial > production. For example, a schoolboy can learn the binomial > theorem in an hour." >
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