Re: [Marxism] work-needs

["s.artesian" <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with John's post, regarding the determination of value.  The means of 
production
are not constant or equivalent in any of these, or almost any imaginable 
circumstance. And the products must differ in value, in their costs of 
reproduction.  Not addressing that is my error.

However, this does not change the equivalence of the working day for the 
producers, and the
essential basis for the equality of wages. Wages are not, under capitalism, 
automatically
determined by the values of the commodities produced.  Wages under socialism 
cannot be 
"graded" on the basis of quantities of use-values produced per worker. We are 
not, with socialism, 
accumulating values.  We are supposed to be consciously directing production 
for the
satisfaction of need.

I think the problem I describe with railroad workers points out the 
impossibility of making
that sort of differentiation based of "quantities" produced.



-----Original Message-----
>From: John A Imani <johnaimani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 15, 2008 7:57 PM
>To: sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Marxism] work-needs


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