[Marxism] Re Marx on Management

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Jurriaan Writes:
>If a bank worker produces numbers, or he produces reports, or he produces
personal services, that is production like any other. If that work is done
on a profit basis (it yields private profit), it is capitalistically
productive, I think. The bank worker performs surplus labour like any
other.<

Perhaps I don't get your point or it could be better expressed. You seem
to be stretching Marx's concept of production and productive labor way
beyond its limits.
Assume one of Tony Soprano's mafia soldiers collects street revenues for
him from protection rackets, drug sales etc, performs the accounting and
other funds tranfer work for Soprano Inc. For his own labor he gets paid
wages equal to  1/3rd of his total labor time; remaining revenues being
divided between necessary overhead costs and profit to Soprano & Co.
equal to say 1/5th of his labor time. Would you argue that soldier X has
"performed production like any other..and surplus labour like any other"?

I don't think that this is simple reductio ad absurdam or is totally
inapplicable. Your analysis of production and productive labor seems to
me heading in this direction.
Bob Montgomery





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