[OPE-L:5655] Re: Re: Re: Reduction

[Rakesh Narpat Bhandari <rakeshb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

re: Steve's 5654

> The problem is simply put Rakesh:
>
> If you believe that commodities can be resolved into labour and
> labour alone, then you believe in magic.

But Steve no one is saying that; of course there will remain some
natural residue which is not objectified labor. Marx never said
otherwise. In fact in both Capital 1 and the the Critique of the
Gotha Programme he emphasized that wealth is the product of both
labor and nature...as you surely know  But the value of commodities
can indeed be resolved into their value or objectified labor alone.
So even if we cannot isolate a moment at which pure labor operated
without means of production, what are we saying other than than labor
always operates with objectified labor? There is only one element in
the causal process of value--objectified abstract labor.

Don't understand the objection.
Yours, Rakesh