ask the list participants if they've ever considered certain apparent self-contradictions in Marx's Capital? * like the one between the labor-time law of value, and Marx's intermittent affinity for the notion that increased productivity of labor can raise the rate of surplus value? * like Marx's use of a so-called average or normal "intensity of labor" variations from which impact the rate and mass of value production, when Marx never defines a normal intensity, how it's measured, and ignores the fact that if intensity changes the rate and mass of value, the labor time theory of value is refuted. * In Vol 3. the discussion of the average or general rate of profit and prices of production leads Marx to conclude that only in the early stages of capitalist--pre-manufacture pre-industrial, are commodities exchanged at their values; meaning before capitalism dominates social production, before labor-power is organized on the wage for time basis, does the law of value actually govern.
I have, and I've never resolved them, to my own satisfaction. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35013): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35013 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111037083/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
