Re: AUT: Remarks on Midnight Notes

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Mattick wrote:

>Yes: but what is produced by cooking, eating, etc. is not "labor power"
>the commodity but the laborer herself. LP is, so to speak, an attribute of
>the person, who is its "owner". This is why, in Marx's analysis, the value
>of LP is determined not by the time necessary to produce the laborer but
>the commodities required for that production: this is where socially
>necessary labor time (value) enters into the story.

And what does this fine distinction do for you politically, aside from
providing an elegant excuse for the value theorist to ignore household
relations?

Doug





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