From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 12:45:31 EDT
At 12:38 PM -0400 10/18/04, glevy@PRATT.EDU wrote: > >>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. So anyone who in order to live has to sell labor power in exchange for a wage is a wage worker or proletarian in Marx's sense? rb >Also, just as clearly, if we use the definition of M & E >slaves aren't proletarians. > >In solidarity, Jerry
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