From: Nicola Taylor (nmtayl@YAHOO.COM.AU)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 12:06:06 EDT
Andy, actually, an argument has been presented many times. Have you seriously read Reuten, Williams and Chris Arthur on the distinction between labour and labour power? How is your conception of labour (and labour power) different from theirs? Nicky Andrew Brown <A.Brown@LUBS.LEEDS.AC.UK> wrote: Rakesh, Nicky and all, Rakesh is correct imo, with his comment below on Nicky's post. What I am trying to do is answer Rakesh's question. Hegel-inspired systematic dialecticians have never managed this, imo, in part because of their lack of clarity on the nature of labour and labour-power (or maybe just their disagreement with what I take to be the correct conception of 'labour') Many thanks, Andy >(imo) Marx's key insight into the social relations of capital is >that workers trade their labour-power freely. i.e. the crucial >distinction is not between humans, land, donkeys etc but between >living *labour* and the *labour power* purchased for wages. And why is the the crucial distinction? An argument has yet to be presented. Rakesh --------------------------------- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.
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