From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 12:38:20 EDT
>>Let's use the definition given by M & E in _The Communist >>Manifesto_: "By proletariat is meant the class of modern >>wage-workers who, having no means of production of their >>own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to >>live." > Very quickly. Just a quick request for clarification. Are you saying > that anyone who not having means of production must sell their labor > power in order to live is a wage worker? Rakesh, No, I am not saying that. Nor were Marx and Engels, I believe. Clearly, slaves don't own means of production but they don't sell labor power in exchange for a wage. Also, just as clearly, if we use the definition of M & E slaves aren't proletarians. In solidarity, Jerry
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