Simon wrote:
I think that where we are parting company is that I am seeing the
productive relationship also as a social relationship, and the purpose of
revolution to change the social relationship by qualitatively changing the
productive relationship, not quantitatively.
Yes SOCIAL
What I am saying is that the value of something is the amount of labour
that goes into it. To replace an arbitrary price based on chance and the
market with an arbitrary price based on a commissar's rule of thumb does
not suspend this rule.
Yes but you are looking through the wrong
Simon writes,
Dear all,
Stop me if you've heard this before - but surely, all capitalism plans
extensively? To argue that an economy is planned does not stop it from
being capitalist. And on the suspension of the Law of Value - you can
suspend prices, if you like, and pretend that
- Original Message -
From: Dave Bedggood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 11:45 PM
Subject: M-TH: China and law of value.
The point about the law of value is that it is a law. Capital tries
its best to accumulate by reducing the value of
