From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 12:56:25 EDT
Hi Paulo, You: The main purpose of capital is the process of valorization but capital cannot be indifferent to the labor process (the process of producing use values) because it is concrete labor alone that keeps past labor alive in the value of the new product. Me: I disagree, because as far as I am concerned production capital is only one type of capital among others, and valorisation refers specifically to increasing the value of production capital. Money capital and commodity (mercantile) capital are not valorized. You: In your response it seems that you oscillate between indifference for the worker and indifference for capital. Those are two very different things I think. Me: It's not that I oscillate between them , but distinguish between them. Marx rarely explicity talks about worker indifference. You: For capitalists there is no such a thing as indifference towards the labor process. Me: But the controversy concerns really whether capital as "self-valorising value" is indifferent to the peculiarities of production processes. You are correct, individual capitalists would not be so indifferent. For the rest, we agree. Jurriaan
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