Even the equality of wages,which Proudhon demands, would merely transform the relation of the present-day worker to his work into the relation of all men to work. Society would then be conceived as an abstract capitalist.
Wages are an immediate consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the immediate cause of private property. If the one falls, then the other must fall too. http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1844-EPM/1st.htm#s1 I guess observations like the above, have always made me partial to notion of abolishing the wage system. Regards, Mike B) ===== "Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child." Sylvia Pankhurst http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html