From: Fred Moseley (fmoseley@MTHOLYOKE.EDU)
Date: Sun May 28 2006 - 16:52:29 EDT
On Sat, 27 May 2006, Jerry Levy wrote: > Fred, > > In the following you assert that "each and every worker produces > surplus-value" and that the "average worker" (which "represents > all workers together") produces surplus-value. This is a very odd > formulation -- especially from you -- since it assumes that all labor > performed by workers is productive of surplus-value (i.e. productive > labor as a proportion of the total labor equals 100%; unproductive labor > as a proportion of the total labor performed by wage-workers equals 0%). > Yet, in some of your published writings you emphasize the importance, > and the growing importance, of unproductive labor in relation to the > process of capitalist accumulation. Ce' pasa? > > In solidarity, Jerry Jerry, I obviously meant to say all productive workers. This is a separate issue from the aggregate / individual issue that Rakesh and I are discussing. Thanks for your correction. Comradely, Fred
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