M-TH: Super exploitation and relative monopoly

1999-09-05 Thread Chris Burford
At 22:25 02/09/99 +1000, Rob wrote: it is my understanding that it is in fact the western worker who is the more exploited. Working with state-of-the-art technology puts the western worker in the position of creating many times the value of one's wage (more surplus value is extracted per

M-TH: Re: Super exploitation and relative monopoly

1999-09-05 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Chris, You take exception to the literal definitions required to make Marx's law of value, indeed his whole critique of capitalist political economy, coherent. Whilst your instinct does you credit (I doubt anybody here doesn't share it), I think you forget that the NIC worker is suffering

Re: M-TH: Re: Super exploitation and relative monopoly

1999-09-05 Thread Lew
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The proletariat *as a whole* tends to a condition of immiseration on the Marxist view. Accumulation grows the proletariat, and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall causes immiseration in the sort of drama we saw unfold in

M-TH: A Thaxis archive?

1999-09-05 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Lew, Incidentally, Rob, I have been asked if this list has a searchable archive and, if so, how does one access it. Well, I shouldn't be surprised if Hans's server configuration has the post-move Thaxis archive in some form or another, but I don't think there is a publicly accessible