Marx was big on the innovative power of capitalism - both its penchant for creating new technologies and new wants. It's not hard to relate that to a theory of job creation, even though many Marxists seem temperamentally inclined to emphasize destruction.
For a system of thought that thinks of itself as offering a better understanding of capitalism than offered by bourgeois theory, it'd be pretty odd not to have a theory of job creation. Schumpeter's "creative destruction" has suffered from criminally excessive quotation, but it is shorthand for a theory, and one that's entirely consistent with Marx(ism). Doug ^^^^^^ CB: On Marxists having a theory of job creation, there's variable capital and constant capital. Variable capital is "jobs". For Marxists, the capitalists wouldn't have a stitch of profit if they didn't create jobs, because labor is the source of all exchange-value, and surplus-value is exchange-value. Isn't this an outline Marxist theory of job creation ? Capitalists create jobs, wage-labor, because they are the source of all their profits.
