@Jim: that application of Marx's analysis is a little too crude for me. his "relative surplus population" isn't simple unemployed people. it's generally the people that capital doesn't need to employ. however, just because capital doesn't need (nor isn't) employing you doesn't mean your unemployed. it just means capital isn't employing you. nothing in that analysis precludes a WPA like program that employs people at the minimum wage level (generating a true minimum wage by the way) and can be bid out of the program at any time by capital. I'm not convinced the relative surplus population must be largely unemployed.
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