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To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:04:30 -0800
Subject: [PEN-L:20027] RE: Re: Relative and absolute surplus value
Greg Schofield writes: >... I would not be so free and easy with testing
Marx's abstract essence o
Greg Schofield writes: >... I would not be so free and easy with testing
Marx's abstract essence of capital against "empirical" evidence...<
I wasn't "testing" Marx's theory. Instead, I was simply applying an abstract
theory to the concrete reality (white-collar vs. blue-collar workers, etc.)
As
would that not be all relative in real time.
--- Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Think of the working day of the working class as a
> whole taken as a single
> worker.
>
> Surplus value reflects the quantity of the working
> day that goes to the
> surplus. Absolute surplus value in
Think of the working day of the working class as a whole taken as a single
worker.
Surplus value reflects the quantity of the working day that goes to the
surplus. Absolute surplus value increases by increasing the working day.
Relative surplus value increases by decreasing to part of the workin
