Re: (OPE-L) Re: tendencies for equalization

From: Allin Cottrell (cottrell@wfu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 22:39:48 EDT 

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Gerald A. Levy wrote:

> As for social formations where the slave mode of production
> dominated, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk about the effort of
> slaves to leave one sector and enter another in search of a higher
> "return to labor."

No, but it makes good sense (as Paul has already pointed out) to talk
about the masters' reallocating the labour of their slaves in search
of higher return.  In relation to the question of whether the law of
value tends to operate, the effect is much the same.

Allin.

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