there is no "contrast" between the real (exploitation) and the moral (equal exchange) in Capital. It is capitalism, not Marx, that creates the contrast, to make us believe free market distributes fairly. Marx objectively reads capitalism as the way it is.. Mine >> [*] In CAPITAL, Marx goes a long distance with the contrast between "what's >> good according to capitalist standards" (trading at value, equal exchange) >> and how the system works in practice (exploitation in production). >Surely Marx's entire point in Capital is to show that "how the system >works >in practice" is precisely by _trading at value_. >Mark Jones >http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList