On Jan 28, 2008 9:06 AM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CB: If they produce use-value, then they produce exchange-value. > Use-values are the thing in which exchange-value exists. If they > produce exchange-value , then they can be exploited out of > surplus-value. > > The use-value a security guard produces is the absence of having some > means of production or commodities stolen, that is preservation of > possession, preservation of appropriation of the commodities and > therefore preservation of surplus value for the capitalist. > Appropriation or possession of the commodities is just as much a > necessary condition for expropriation or exploitation of surplus value > as the labor producing the value. >
Wow this is a bit overwhelming. Jim, Louis, Thanks for the correction: I should have said "surplus-value" instead of "use-value". re: security guards there is still a difference between a mall security guard who stops shop-lifters and a security guard who keeps trespassers out of a gated community. The second kind of security guard labor is more similar to that of a house-maid. -raghu.
