From: Fred Moseley (fmoseley@MTHOLYOKE.EDU)
Date: Sun May 28 2006 - 16:56:00 EDT
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > Fred also leaves out taxes, leases and royalties from his discussion of > surplus value. Logically Marx is committed to the idea that workers may > perform surplus labour without producing new surplus value. > I often wonder why Marxists almost never discuss taxation even when it > represents close to a third of gross value added. Jurriaan, you are right. Taxes is also another important part of the total surplus-value. I was talking about Marx's abstract theory in Volume 3 of the division of the total surplus-value into individual parts, which did not includes taxes. Thanks for your comment. Comradely, Fred
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