File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9707, message 71


Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 00:57:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: State capitalism


Comrades,

"Free labor" is meant to designate two conditions. First, that the worker
owns his labor power and is free to sell that commodity in a labor market. 
Second, the worker is "freed" from ownership and/or control over the
instruments and objects of labor. The former presupposes the latter. (Both
presuppose bourgeois economic relations.)

Louis is correct that the wage labor-capital relation (under capitalist
relations of production) is coercion. It is under the capitalist mode of
production that exploitation becomes almost exclusively *economic*
coercion (as opposed to extra-economic coercion). 

Andrew Austin




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