Re: [OPE] Reply to critics

From: Paul Cockshott <wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Sat Nov 06 2010 - 04:53:07 EDT

The hole is that in the categorisation of insurance as concerned with the allocation of value rather than its production we are assuming what we want to demonstrate.

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From: "GERALD LEVY" <gerald_a_levy@msn.com>
Subject: RE: Reply to critics
Date: 5th November 2010
Time: 7:03:22 pm

I don't see any holes, Paul.

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> From: wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk
> To: gerald_a_levy@msn.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:04:52 +0000
> Subject: Re: [OPE] Reply to critics
>
>
> I think you are being hasty here GERRY, I think Paula is playing devils advocate here, She is quite successfully pointing out holes in your justification of the non productivity of insurance. I agree that it is non productive but Paula shows that it is difficult to say exactly why.
>
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> From: "GERALD LEVY"
> Subject: Re: [OPE] Reply to critics
> Date: 5th November 2010
> Time: 2:26:47 pm
>
>
>
> Hi Paula:
>
> We are simply retreading on ground which has already been covered.
>
> You don't seem to recognize that there's a difference between the
> production of surplus value
> and the redistribution of surplus value. How you make sense out of
> rent is beyond me.
> Nor do you seem to recognize that there is a distinction between the
> production of surplus
> value and actions which simply change the title and legal ownership of
> commodities.
>
> Hence, I think we're at a dead end in this discussion.
>
> In solidarity, Jerry
>
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