Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 07:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: *Marx, Hayek, and Utopia*


> Because the basic grief is that I don't want to be bought and sold
> and hired. <snip>
> John Mullen
> SI France

Unless slavery has been restored recently on a limited basis in France,
you have no fear of being bought and sold. It is one of the defining
characteristics of capitalism that workers are "free" to sell their
*labour-power* (rather than themselves as laborers) on the market in
exchange for a wage. "Wage slavery" should not be confused with slavery
proper.

Jerry



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