Date: Sun, 30 Apr 95 0:36:16 EDT From: boddhisatva <foucault-AT-eden.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: Marx's birthday (fwd) In response to Mr. Keen's letter and Mr. Burford's submission, In that I've come to mature Marxism through my experiences as an exploited worker, it may surprise some on the list that I find absolutely no relevance in the analysis of value through labor content. It seems to me patently contradictory to say that a good's value has any important relationship to the work that went into it, in the modern age. I feel that Marx used this end of the theory largely as a political "justification" for Marxism. My "justification" relies simply on something very like citizenship. To the extent that a person participates in a social unit that creates value, he should derive benefit as a matter of rights, just as an owner does. An owner may or may not "work" for the economic organization that he has a stake in, but he derives benefit on the basis of his ownership as well as whatever "market determined", "job" compensation he receives. That is why I ask Marxists how we may expand, or create an equivalent concept to, ownership as now defined in the liberal state. peace --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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