>From Ernest Mandel's introduction to the Penguin edition of Capital 2

"Productive labor, as labour expended in the realm of production of
commodities, is all wage labor indispensible for that production
process...even managers and stock clerks, insofar as the physical
production of the commodity would be impossible without that labor. But
wage labor which is indifferent to the specific use value of a commodity
and is performed only to extort the maximum surplus value from the work
force or to assure the defence of private property, labour linked to the
particular social and juridicial forms of capitalist production (etc...)
none of these is productive labor for capital"

Why is this? He gives a cite to capital 1 but I couldn't understand Marx's
argument. Why is only the labor PHYSICALLY necessary for the reproduction
of a good factored into its value?

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