On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:03 PM, c b wrote: > buried near > the end of the story is the secret IBM strategy to achieve that > difference: INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SERVICES.
> CB; Marx's theoretical prediction of the capitalists' motive to, in > the words of the Manifesto, constantly revolutionizing the > instruments of productio , is the > drive for _relative_ surplus value: Relative surplus value has nothing to do with the case because the services provided by IBM are *business* services not services sold to consumers as consumable products. As such their costs are *overhead* costs rather than payment for productive labor. Unproductive labor, however necessary to the realization of surplus value, itself produces no surplus value absolute or relative. Shane Mage "All things are an equal exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods are for gold and gold for goods." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr, 90 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
