On 4/28/07, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's more about the creation of a structural basis for
capitalist accumulation than it is about the existence of pure
capitalism (however defined).
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Jim Devine /
^^^^^^
CB: Since actually existing capitalism has always been with the impurities
of other than fully wage-labor, we might say that capitalism is impure
structurally, that the impurities are as necessary to capitalism as
wage-labor.
it's true that capitalism is always impure. But I don't see why the
impurities are necessary to capitalism. At least Marx didn't think so.
But Luxemburg did, and maybe she was right that external markets were
needed.
It might also be argued that without families to reproduce labor-power
capitalism would collapse.
FWIW, a pure capitalism is very scary. It would involve using markets
and capitalist-controlled factories to organize human reproduction,
among other things.
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Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
