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Reed warbler feeding cuckoo chick "Capital further developed into a coercive relation, which compels the working-class to do more work than the narrow round of its own life-wants prescribes. As a producer of the activity of others, as a pumper-out of surplus labour and exploiter of labour-power, it surpasses in energy, disregard of bounds, recklessness and efficiency, all earlier systems of production based on directly compulsory labour. Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1 For the reed warbler bird, "the narrow round of its own life-wants" (i.e. feeding its own reed-warbler chick) is much less work than feeding the huge chick that the cuckoo lays in its nest. But the cuckoo discovered that the reed warbler can do more work than nature designed it to do. The cuckoo chick in the nest "pumps out" surplus labour from the reed warbler. The capitalist "pumps out" surplus labour from the worker. VC -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
