Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 12:45:14 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: The Illusion of State Socialism


Gerald Levy wrote:

>The operative word above is "if."  When commodities are sold at their
>value, advertising does not increase "exploitation" since exploitation
>concerns the extraction of surplus-value by capital in production rather
>than the "exploitation" of consumers in the marketplace.

If workers buy commodities in part to assuage their alienation, and if to
buy those commodities they go into debt and work longer hours than the
would have otherwise, we're not talking about the secondary exploitation of
consumers in the marketplace, but some fundamental class processes.

Doug

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