Date: 20 Oct 96 02:20:44 EDT From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: M-G: value, wages, and labor cards dear R. Pearson, The labor cards are not my idea, just a technologically updated version of the labor vouchers K. Marx himself advocated in his "Critique of the Gotha Programme" and other articles he wrote. The cards need to be used after the revolution only in the TRANSITION from capitalism to full socialism/communism. They are used to phase out wages, money and commodity exchange.. The cards are NOT money as they do not circulate! In new social relations of common ownership of all industries , socialist society and the people are not all changed overnight but most will change as the revolution moves past capitalist relations ahead to socialism. Thus, it will probably be necessary to register (on a scanned plastic card) the quantity of labor time or at least the general completion of minimum of work each worker contributes to the social stores as a temporary basis of determining the totals of goods the workers could withdraw from them. I say the plastic cards would be better now, less bulky and in this computer age , less bureaucratic than keeping record via millions of paper vouchers!!! In fully developed socialism , the measurement of the labor time (or work record) as means of payment will gradually disappear totally. Then as Marx siad society will inscribe on its banners "from everyone according to his faculties, to everyone according to his (& her-NC) needs!" In the fight for reaching to goal of real socialism , when the means of wealth production become common property of all , and production is socially planned for human needs nad not as under capitalism, for sale and profit , the revolutionary social relations will not need any capitalist "law of value." We can be flexibale on this , but key is that this task of getting rid of money and markets must begin the day after the workers sieze the industries and state from the capitalists. Neil
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