The point about wages is not so much our theory of it, but
whether this is the way for human beings to live together.
We should be able to find another way of sharing the social
product, because all these definitions in themselves do not
challenge the way of life that has brought us all to this
catastrophic point. In a material human community we would
surely, as a first step, develop a way of calculating the
proportion of use values that an individual could
appropriate relative to his or her contribution to
production (yes this would be quite tricky). It would not
constitute money, because (based on our experiences of
history) we would simply not allow this abstraction from use
value into pure exchange value. This of course raises a host
of 'technical' questions, but why bother with those if we
think that God created money, capital, wages, etc. The fact
that they are products of history means that we need to
grasp that history in its forward movement and whatever
unrealised potentials there are in humanity itself. But
please, wages are part of capitalism, not socialism.
Socialism is either a vision of something we believe is
still possible, and if not what have you got? Please be
explicit.
Tahir
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