Re: [OPE] "Parasitism"

From: Paul Cockshott <wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Tue Feb 24 2009 - 08:11:14 EST

GERALD LEVY wrote:
> > For opera singing to produce relative surplus value two things are
> necessary:
> > 1. It must enter into the real wage
> > 2. It must be capable of undergoing technical change to raise its
> productivity
>
>
> Paul C:
>
> So you keep asserting, but WHY?
It follows from the way Marx defined the concept of relative surplus value.
Relative surplus value arises from the cheapening of the elements of
consumption measured
in labour cost relative to a fixed working day.
Absolute surplus value arises when the working day is extended beyond
the pre-industrial norm.
>
> In solidarity, Jerry
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