... Hi Robin, This broken link 'problem' happens all the time, and isn't a problem really. I just copied the bits into Word, reassembled them and Ctrl click....
The exchange value of a commodity is the amount of socially necessary labor embodied in its production. Commodities existed before capitalism (where the means...
... it still ... of labour workers put in? Hi Torgun, The problem with LTV is it assumes that material in the ground - 'natural resources' - has no value, and...
... post. ... sector ... articles ... activities)" ... Robin, I offered this as a sub-set of 'unpaid labour', so not just, and not only, 'peasants', because...
Hi All, From an old study course of our sector (SLP cum NUP). [We've got more if anybody wants it]: For freesocialism, arminius 14. MARXIAN ECONOMICS - THE LAW...
... Dead on Chris...but it is even a little worse than that. Marx unfortunately believe the return on land to landlord's (called "economic rent") was also...
... Dead on Chris...but it is even a little worse than that. ............ BG I'm not sure which point you are saying Chris is dead on about here. It is indeed...
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Bill G: A pile of gold that is one foot under the ground in my backyard doesn't have any value until it is brought to market. The prevailing market value is a...
jrdavis provided a link to someone's essay on the "labor theory of value" The first paragraph stated: ========= The LTV is the theory that market prices are...
Chris wrote: The problem with LTV is it assumes that material in the ground - 'natural resources' - has no value, and so can be exploited freely. And didn't...
Hi all, FYI. For freesocialism, arminius ...from today's Oregonian, p D1: Money study may explain Scrooge's anti-social behavior by Janet Cromley "Just...
b.g. wrote: Marx unfortunately believe the return on land to landlord's (called "economic rent") was also surplus value as he too thought that land was just...
... what I believe as a mutualist is that capital seeks to use the power of the state via privilege, direct subsidies, tarrifs, etc. to subsidize accumulation,...
Hi Eric, Just to clarify, you said: '> I'm not sure which point you are saying Chris is dead on about here.' All I was saying was to query Torgun's point:...
... the fundamental question then becomes "well, how do we get from where we are today to what you describe?" traditionally it has been thought that the...
b.g. wrote: by ending all privilege, subsidies and tarrifs the market will drive price to cost (eliminating economic profit) and as Benjamin Tucker said "the...
Chris wrote: by saying that no labour has been expended on 'resources' in the ground, so - in the way capitalism works and does its accounting - those...
b.g. wrote: the fundamental question then becomes "well, how do we get from where we are today to ... inherent in capitalism will ... authority of the...
... I wouldn't agree... by ending privilege we end economic rent to landowners, economic interest to bankers, and economic profits to capitalists...by ending...
b.g. wrote: by ending privilege we end economic rent to landowners, economic interest to bankers, and economic profits to capitalists...by ending subsidies to ...
... why would you even want to take over the means of industrial production (land, labor, capital) if you have a basic income guarantee from the private...
BGreen: Privilege flows from private ownership of the productive means and not the other way around. If a millionaire leaves his holdings to his cat does that...
Hi BG ... a true market system ... which peasants had held ... freely available to laborers ... in every country without ... colonial robbery, is beyond ... ...
Byron- labor is the basis of ownership of labor and capital (stored labor). since land nor the return on land (economic rent) is the product of labor it is...
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BGreen: The conferring of ownership on individuals has usually been by murderous force. Force thus utilized results in ownership which then decides what laws...
