From: michael a. lebowitz (mlebowit@SFU.CA)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 00:20:40 EDT
At 17:40 29/04/2004, Paul C wrote:
>The wages of workers in Europe and the US are above the
>value of labour power if this is taken to be the reproduction
>cost of labour. This is born out by the fact that labour can
>be reproduced much more cheaply in India or China.
Doesn't the set of necessaries underlying the value of
labour-power have something to do with historically developed social needs,
which become second nature?
>It is only a commitment to the working class interest that
>inhibits Marxists from admiting this.
You mean we are dishonest?
michael
Michael A. Lebowitz
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Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
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