<[email protected]> wrote:
>Of course, that report isn't the whole story. The rate of surplus value is
>what we want to know and that surplus value not only includes profits to the
>employer, but also includes taxes and rents<
Wouldn't that be taxes _net of_ the "social wage," i.e., services
provided to the working class by the state. So it would be social
security taxes ("contributions") minus social security benefits, etc.
> Shouldn't one of the socialist goals be to reduce the rate of surplus value?
> <
I don't see how pointing to real-world evidence of a shrinking share
of national income going to labor contradicts this goal.
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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