From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 19:07:58 EDT
Are we debating whether there can be a difference (to take a note from Gil Skillman) between activities that yield surplus value (privately appropriated) and activities that actually increase the total value in circulation, increase the pool of surplus value from which all capitalists draw? Is Paul C's point that an activity can do the former while not doing the latter? Is Diego's point that the important difference is between surplus value and revenue, so that an arms mfg who sells to the state has marketed a value while if the state had built the weapon itself, it would have only expended revenue. Though end product is same, the laborers in the first instance productive but unproductive in the latter case. All this said, I have a request for vocabulary help. What is the name of the argumentative strategy which attempts to limit the over-claims of two contradictory sides? I have been racking my mind, and can't remember. Question has no relevance to above debate. If anyone can help, thanks so much. Yours, Rakesh
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