the labor theory of value

[Charles Brown]

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At 02:59 PM 9/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Wasn't Marx himself critical of the notion that only labor creates
> >value? I recall something about nature being a partner in the
> >enterprise.

for Marx, labor and nature both create use-values, whereas only labor 
creates value. Use-values refer to the relationship between commodities (or 
non-commodities) and people, whereas values are societal by nature.

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CB: But "value" and "exchange-value" are not quite exactly the same thing ?