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Date: Sun Mar 11 2007 - 17:12:53 EDT
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:05:34 +0100 To: OPE-L <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> From: Riccardo Bellofiore <riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it> Subject: Re: [OPE-L] What is most important in Marx's theory? >At 10:19 -0800 11-03-2007, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >>I don't see nothing more active than capital in >production processes. Capital IS a self-moving substance. "Dynamic". Nothing excludes here that entrepreneurship, or abstinence, or whatever may be the source of the surplus. And in a sense, it is so. And concrete labour is nothing but capital itself, as soon as it is "manipulated" by capital which gives it the specific features needed to produce and sell. Capital is really productive of the surplus. Only living labour, as abstract labour to be extracted from wage workers, is productive of value and surplus value. The capitalist definitely is NOT like the feudal lord or the slave owner. And in feudalism or slave society the surplus could be traced back to (concrete) labour because of the substantialo stationarity of those modes of production. riccardo
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