Re: New rules - reply to Ian

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Adam Smith, humans have the natural propensity to truck, barter and exchange. According to Marx, people have the natural propensity to produce and be creative. ** The point is to put wealth and control of same (power) into the

Re: New rules - reply to Ian

2003-11-03 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The point is to put wealth and control of same (power) into the *producers'* hands. In Holland, they have an advertising slogan for Drum shag tobacco: it's in your hands. J.

Re: New rules - reply to Ian

2003-11-02 Thread joanna bujes
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: The theorem is that we all have something to sell, just like prostitutes, and the whole way to expand the market is to focus on those things you've got that you can sell. Something tells me it's a bit worse for the consolidated account than for the prostitute. The

Re: New rules - reply to Ian

2003-11-02 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Something tells me it's a bit worse for the consolidated account than for the prostitute. The prostitute still represents a kind of natural economy: presumably her customer looks to her for the satisfaction of a natural sexual need. In the context of the market, we must ready ourselves to satisfy

New rules - reply to Ian

2003-11-01 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
I wrote: They hope that they will get sex for nothing, and they hope that for the rest people will notice, and they will say that according to the contract, employer is entitled to the full labour-power of the employee, i.e. all potential and observable behaviours. That should be for the