Re: [Marxism] meaning of labor time in Capital

[David Picón Álvarez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: <J.M.P.Cloke@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> This labour/economic accountancy include the value of the input by 
> partner/wife in supporting the individual labourer/family? i.e. is it 
> gendered labour accountancy?

Clearly all labour that is required for the production and reproduction of 
labour power should be accounted for, which includes the labour expended in 
home tasks and the raising of children. However, I don't think it needs to 
be thought of as gendered or as labour by a wife or partner, as I believe 
more equitable arrangements are in principle possible.

> 'Undistorted market'? Ain't no such thing - there is no such thing as a 
> free market. You some kind of neoclassical economist or something?

Well, my point was that Capital, which speaks of ideal markets especially at 
its start, tells us one way of computing labour inputs of commodities, since 
prices are more or less directly related to them. Of course further along in 
Capital we find out why this is not quite the case.

--David.


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