At 23:53 29/11/2006, Jim D wrote:
I don't know exactly what's meant by "coexisting on the same level." Surplus-value and profit/interest/rent do not exist on the same level in our minds and in Marx's order of presentation in CAPITAL.
They coexist on the same level for you if you think there is a real transformation process via the mobility of capitals whereby values are transformed into prices of production; that is inconceivable for inner essences and surface forms. Reference to the order of presentation isn't sufficient to distinguish these levels because one can fall back on the old 'successive approximations' canard./m Michael A. Lebowitz Professor Emeritus Economics Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 Currently based in Venezuela. NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBERS Can be reached at Residencias Anauco Suites Departamento 601 Parque Central, Zona Postal 1010, Oficina 1 Caracas, Venezuela (58-212) 573-6333, 571-1520, 571-3820 (or hotel cell: 0412-200-7540) fax: (58-212) 573-7724
