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Susan A. Mann makes a crucial point. If you think about the exploitation of wage labor as key to Marx's definition of capitalism, you really need to drill down when it comes to farming--a category that includes poultry farms and wheat farms that have a totally different use of labor. Poultry farms that consist of chickens maintained in vast buildings and that are processed in assembly line fashion require a labor force kept busy 12 months a year. (Unless we are talking about boutique organic free range farms.) I am talking about Purdue, et al. But a wheat farm is constrained by the growing conditions that has no need of labor while the plants are reaching maturity. In fact, that is why many wheat farms are family-owned and operated even though they require significant investment in machinery. Is a family farm a capitalist enterprise? That is a key question.
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