From: Dogan Goecmen (Dogangoecmen@AOL.COM)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2006 - 13:49:10 EST
In einer eMail vom 29.11.2006 19:24:47 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM: "If human beings become merely observers to the production process can it still be said that they are engaged in production labor?" I would say 'yes' because it is socially necessary labour and it is part of production. Hi Dogan: 'Guard labor' -- what I referred to previously -- does not produce commodities but rather protects their ownership. From an individual capitalist perspective, they -- like lawyers -- may be deemed necessary, but they do not themselves produce commodities. Jerry, I was thinking about this in broader context and remembered what Saint-Simon says on police, armee and so on. He says all these works are are absolutely necessar today, but from a more advanced society's point of view they are no longer necessary. A similar point is made by Smith in relation to the state as such in his "Lectures on Jurisprudence" Regards Dogan
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