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Damn my eyes...? Like that. Hope the rest of me follows. 1. The origin of the law of value is the organization of labor itself as value-producing; the genesis is in the specific class relation. How does this relationship evolve? By the aggrandizement of the means of production by one class, and the stripping and the detaching of the labor of another class from all sources of subsistence, self-reproduction other than through exchange with these means of production. 2. No, I don't know what you mean. 3. It's not chicken and egg. Classes are created first, that is what primitive accumulation is all about. The law does not create the men and women; the men and women in their social organization give life to the law, which then, in the classic case of the fetishism of anti-fetishism, appears as being independent from those relations; as being self-creating. As Frankenstein's monster said to Dr. Frankenstein: "You are my creator, but I am your master. You must obey!" 4. The essential condition for private property to become capital is that it engages its opposite, wage-labor. For labor to appear as wage-labor, it has to be "freed" from connections to immediate subsistence and direct production for use. ----- Original Message ----- From: "New Tet" <[email protected]> To: "David Schanoes" <[email protected]> ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
