From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 19:06:23 EST
> Wouldn't it be more > precise to say that what is bought is the use of labor power for a > specific period of time? Hi Howard: Yes, that's correct with the following addendum: the point Marx made about "how this is not strictly true since the labour itself it not bought or sold directly sold" relates to the distinction between labour and labour power as a commodity. In any event, what's crucial is his insistence on how the *commodity as a product of capital* contains both *paid and unpaid labour* and he clearly and explicitly relates this to *workers' wages*. The commodity as a product of capital is produced by wage-workers, according to that formulation. In solidarity, Jerry
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