[Marxism] Marx was a "restricted consumptionist"

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David PicÃn Ãlvarez


I don't have context for the quote either, but it seems clear to me
that the 
reason why it can't be read as you suggest, is because the very nature
of 
capitalist production entails the extraction of surplus from wage
labour. 
While this remains the case, it is impossible for workers to consume
the 
full value they produce (measured in labour time).

--David.

^^^
CB: Exactly. Crises are inherent
in the very "cell" of commodity
production under a wage-labor
system. The crises are predictable
from the very first pages of 
_Capital_ I.

Are you saying , (For some strange 
reason) you
 this is why the quote "can't" (???) 
be read as I say, when it is exactly
why
the quote must be read as I say ?

You put your finger on the most
fundamental point , and then
draw the exact wrong conclusion
unless the "you" your refer to 
is not me.


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