In a message dated 7/5/02 12:05:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 04/07/02 15:34 -0700, you wrote:
Tom has been reading the Grundrisse again.
Tom Walker wrote:
As individual effort has come to play less
and less of a role in social productivity, the methods of
Title: RE: Slaughter of dead labour (dead already but not again, yet)
Tom Walker says:All I meant to refer to was the increasingly social character of production, certainly not its equalization or de-skilling...
Then, I'd agree with you. I was confused about what you meant. (BTW, I like
The explosive aspect of the mess we're in would seem to come from the
eventual dependence in their golden years of white dead labour on BOTH the
surplus value and the cheap commodities produced by brown and yellow living
labour in some exotic location. When the day comes they have to reenter the
Chris Burford:
A major pensions company, Equitable Life, is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Some background on Equitable Life:
Price saw practical application of Bayes' theorem in the actuarial field,
since many annuity schemes had failed on account of the inadequacy of
available mortality
Jim,
Before I can answer your question, could you explain what _you_ mean
by evidence. Bergson says, The beliefs to which we most strongly adhere
are those of which we should find it most difficult to give an account,
and the reason by which we justify them are seldom those which have led us
to
Let me ask a (possibly the same) question in another way. You make two
claims: (a) According to the _Grundrisse_ human labor is more and more
equalized (emptied of skill) through the development of technology and
the division of labor and (b) this is also empirically true of the last
40 years in
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27637] Re: Slaughter of dead labour (dead already but not again, yet)
Tom Walker writes:
Jim,
Before I can answer your question, could you explain what _you_ mean
by evidence. Bergson says, The beliefs to which we most strongly
adhere are those of which we should find
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27637] Re: Slaughter of dead labour (dead already but not again, yet)
All I meant to refer to was the increasingly social character
of production, certainly not its equalization or de-skilling. By all means
science and technology are attributes of human activity and perhaps
we are observing. If
capitalism is the domination of dead labour over living labour, then this
is a slaughter of dead labour (accumulated surplus value in the form of
capital requiring ever more surplus value).
Pensioners, who are also dead labour in that they are no longer variable
capital
Warning: this is too good for me to resist stealing in the future.
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:01:04AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
If
capitalism is the domination of dead labour over living labour, then this
is a slaughter of dead labour (accumulated surplus value in the form of
capital
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