Productive Labor

[cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Carrol Cox)]

    In discussing productive and unproductive labor, one must from the
beginning constantly remind oneself that the distinction is not a moral
distinction. Street drugs are commodities. A commodity, of course, can be a
service as well as a product, and hence a mafia hit man when he murders someone
for a wage is performing productive labor. Any labor that produces surplus
value is productive. I'm not trying to produce a very coherent positive
statement here but merely raising a warning sign.
        Carrol Cox
        Illinois State Univ.
        Normal, Il


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