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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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