File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1996/96-10-23.072, message 25


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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