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Gerald Levy wrote:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 07:50:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Karl Marx <Karl_Marx@highgate.uk>
> To: Gerald Levy <glevy@pratt.edu>
> Subject: Re: assumptions, assumptions, assumptions
>
> Dear Jerry:
>
> Thank you for forwarding OPE-L posts to me. I have been following your
> discussions with great interest.
>
> I would like to thank Comrade Kliman for quoting me as follows:
>
> "When the political economists treat surplus-value and the value of
> labour-power as fractions of the value-product - a mode of presentation which
> arises, by the way, out of the capitalist mode of production itself ...they
> conceal the specific character of the capital-relation, namely the fact that
> variable capital is exchanged for living labour-power, and that the worker is
> accordingly excluded from the product. Instead of revealing the
> capital-relation they show us the false semblance of a relation of
> association, in which worker and capitalist divide the product in proportion
> to the different elements which they respectively contribute to its
> formation."
>
> I believe that Comrade Kliman expresses above exactly why I feel that the
> v = 0 assumption is not accurate as an interpretation of my work _Das
> Kapital_, i.e. it "conceal(s) the specific character of the
> capital-relation, namely the fact that variable capital is exchanged for
> living labor-power...".
>
> I look forward to receiving future communications from you regarding
> OPE-L. Please forward this message to OPE-L along with my best wishes.
>
> Totus tuus,
>
> K.M.
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail michael@ecst.csuchico.edu