From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@DCS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2004 - 16:30:09 EDT
Rakesh In referring to the slave mode of production, I am wondering whether modes of production are to be defined by the nature of the ties between between immediate appropriators and direct producers--the legal ties of slavery, the legal cum traditional ties between lords and serfs, and the exchange mediated ties between capitalists and proletarians. Are these ties what Marx meant by relations of production? Are they what Marx meant by the respective forms in which surplus labor is pumped out in his articulation of the central dogma of historical materialism? I don't think so. How does GA Cohen define mode and relation of production? What are Derek Sayer's specific criticisms of what he considers formalist definitions? Paul C I dont know about what works you are refering to, can you tell us more about it.
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