Re: Labor aristocracy

[dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan Peyser)]

> CB: 1) This issue always comes up in this discussion. I can never quite fully
> pin it down .
> Just because labor is more productive does not mean that the bosses can
> therefore extract more surplus value from it. Human labor,or variable

There are two ways of extracting more surplus value from workers: increasing 
their productivity,
which is why there is always a constant drive to revolutionize the means of 
production, or paying
them less. I hope I am not sounding completely over-simplistic here, I could 
have just misread your
email.

> surplus value per unit commodity. So, workers working with higher
> technological instruments of production, i.e. less labor intensive production
> is less rich in surplus value. Workers in imperialist countries and

Just because the means of production become more technologically advanced does 
not means themselves
are necessarily less labor intensive, does it?

dan


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