On 6/7/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
here's my understanding: the hiring of unproductive (of surplus-value) labor-power is done because even though the labor is unproductive, it does contribute to the individual profits of businesses.
Much of Dilke's analysis of unproductive labor (I'm not sure if I would refer to it as labor-power) had to do with the state, church and professions -- "clerical" labor in the original sense of the term. He was talking not only about the re-apportionment of surplus value but with its absolute destruction. Dilke maintained the challenge for capital was not how to produce stuff but how to get rid of it. In this respect, the US economy is becoming a giant engine for consuming other countries' surplus production. War plays a major role in this vital service of destruction that the US performs for the global economy. -- Sandwichman
