Louis Proyect wrote:
>Of course it is more productive. But that is not the point that Marx was
>making.
Marx wrote:
>Large-scale industry and
>industrially pursued large-scale agriculture have the same effect. If they
>are originally distinguished by the fact that the former lays waste and
>ruins labour-power and thus the natural power of man, whereas the latter
>does the same to the natural power of the soil, they link up in the later
>course of development, since the industrial system applied to agriculture
>also enervates the workers there, while industry and trade for their part
>provide agriculture with the means of exhausting the soil.
