MW
-- >4. We (R&W) have argued for a characterisation of the commodity which includes >the following: > i) It is produced by the expenditure of (abstract, socially necessary) >labour under capitalist relations of production. Such labour is incommensurable >except in as much as it is in fact commensurated by entry of the commodities it >produces into generalised capitalist commodity exchange, mediated by money.) > Paul C: ------- Why do you say that it is in principle incommensurable as opposed to simply saying that it is not, in practice, directly measured in a capitalist economy? Paul Cockshott (wpc@cs.strath.ac.uk)