Re: [OPE] Reply to critics

From: GERALD LEVY <gerald_a_levy@msn.com>
Date: Tue Nov 02 2010 - 17:26:26 EDT

Q: > What 'products' are produced by the clown industry?

 
Hi Paula:
 
A: Entertainment.
 
Entertainment just doesn't 'happen' in this case: it is produced
by the labor of clowns and the circus. It is productive labor
to the extent that it is wage-labor employed by a capitalist
firm engaged in production.
 
Unlike some other sectors, the entertainment isn't paid out of
revenues, it doesn't represent merely a transfer of surplus-value
among capitalists, and it doesn't only concern the legal title to
wealth and surplus value.
 
In solidarity, Jerry
 
                                                
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