Re: [OPE-L] The Technically Necessary or Socially Necessary Question

From: paul cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2007 - 04:51:37 EDT

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 Jerry: 
Hi Paul C:
 
So, you think that the value of labour power is also determined
by what is _technically_ necessary?
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No - labour power is not a commodity produced under capitalist relations
Of production but an instance where the commodity form obscures what is
basically a distribution of income between classes. The mechanisms
regulating the class distribution of income are different from those
regulating the prices of commodities.
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Gerry:
I think you missed the import of Howard's comment that "you
cannot remove the way class relations determine social need
from what counts as socially necessary labor time".
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No, because he was using the words 'need' and 'necessary' in the ambiguous
sense to which I object.

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