It is the "buy off" part that Post challenges. For almost 200 years most resistance to capitalism has come from the better paid workers, the so-called "aristocracy of labor."
Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Max Sawicky > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:56 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Naive notes on Heinrich/Locascio > > Really? Exploded it with data? I always thought workers in big monopolized > industries got paid much better than average. The U.S. archetype was the > auto workers. > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Max Sawicky > > > > And the existence of monopoly rents is crucial in > > a number of other ways -- the ability to buy off workers > > > A few years ago in an article in Historical Materialism Charles Post > pretty > much exploded this concept. There is no evidence for it in any of its > many > forms. > > Carrol > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
