When I wrote:
Selling your own labour-power is not where power and prosperity is at.
Selling other people's labour is.
I was asked:
Well, unless you're an artist or a novelist -- someone who produces
something completely "useless". Or?
And I replied:
The petty-bourgeoisie is in-between the
A factory when used as a factory is a use value that is
not a
commodity. It is only a commodity when it is sold.
George misses the point of Marx's comment. All wealth takes the form of
commodities. The fact that something is not being sold at that moment
does not stop it from being a
This "reporting" out of today's New York Times, appears to be part of
building the spin necessary for the smooth transition to Mexican
"democracy", which the US wants to negociate.
There have been growing signs for months, that an alliance of rich
Mexican businessmen, the Catholic Church, the US
