On 11/30/06, Ted Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
> It's hard to say using any kind of brevity. One shared characteristic
> would having zero surplus-value.
Does "surplus-value" in the sense applicable to capitalism have
meaning in an ideal community?
no it doesn't. Surplus-value is a category unique to capitalism. An
ideal society might produce a surplus, though, as Marx noted in his
CRITIQUE OF THE GOTHA PROGRAM.
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Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not
stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
