c b wrote: > Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers > > True or false ?
as usual is true/false questions about complex questions, the sophisticated answer is "both." False: according to Marx, the basis of wage labor (i.e., the proletariat) under capitalism is a double freedom: (1) freedom from the bondage of serfdom, slavery, and the like; and (2) freedom from ownership of the means of production and subsistence, so that the "free" labor has no choice but to buy consumption (subsistence) goods from those who own the means of production. True: if the laborers were to totally unite, to form One Big Union as it were, then the institution of wage-labor could go away. -- Jim Devine "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
