Shane Mage <[email protected]> writes: > On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:03 PM, c b wrote: >> buried near >> the end of the story is the secret IBM strategy to achieve that >> difference: INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SERVICES. > >> CB; Marx's theoretical prediction of the capitalists' motive to, in >> the words of the Manifesto, constantly revolutionizing the >> instruments of productio , is the >> drive for _relative_ surplus value: > > Relative surplus value has nothing to do with the case because the > services provided by IBM are *business* services not services sold to > consumers as consumable products. As such their costs are *overhead* > costs rather than payment for productive labor. Unproductive labor, > however necessary to the realization of surplus value, itself produces > no surplus value absolute or relative.
No, I think that IBM's services are part of Department I, and the dead labor from the services is transferred to whatever commodities their customers in Department II are selling. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
