As a follow up to my recently published "The Ambivalence of Disposable Time: *The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties* At Two Hundred <https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzab005>" I am investigating Marx's category of socially necessary labour time. The 1821 pamphlet also employed a critical concept of social labour time that differed in at least two respects from Marx's. Arguably, the earlier concept was more coherent. That coherence relied on *a priori* assumptions about the use values of different classes of commodities and consequently a distinction between productive and unproductive labour. The question remains whether or not Marx's abridgements gained in scientific objectivity more than they gave up in comprehensibility, which is why I am doing the inquiry. I have started a chapter by chapter review of Marx's use of the term, socially necessary labour time <https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2021/07/socially-ambivalent-labour-time-i.html>, at EconoSpeak. Comments and criticisms are welcome!
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