Since we're on Marx and irony, I've been hoping you all out there can help
me with a passage from Capital I've been puzzling over.
In discussing the production of surplus value (sect. 2, chap. 7), M. notes:
"The circumstance that, on the one hand the daily sustenacne of
labour-power costs only half a day's labour, whiole on the other hand the
very same labour-power can work a dring a whole day, that consequenly the
value of which its use during one day creates, is double what he pays for
that use, this circumstance is, without doubt, a piece of good luck for the
the buyer, but by no means an injury to the seller."
Is it a "non-injury" by virtue of the fictive equality in the exhcnage
relation ("liberty, equality, and Bentham", as Doug notes)?
Tom
At 07:19 PM 17/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Thomas Kruse wrote:
>
>>Doug & Carrol:
>>
>>Speaking of irony (you weren´t, Doug), that is what don Carlos was up to
>>here, no?
>>
>>>On first glance, and even second, the market is that place of
>>>liberty, equality, and Bentham that Marx said it was
>
>I thought so, but evidently our understanding doesn't comport with Carrol's
>reading of thousands of pages on the topic.
>
>Doug
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