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Re: [OPE-L] monetary macro interpretation

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Fred,

In the following you assert that "each and every worker produces
surplus-value"  and that the "average worker" (which "represents
all workers together") produces surplus-value.  This is a very odd
formulation -- especially from you -- since it assumes that all labor
performed by workers is productive of  surplus-value


wow Jerry you really nailed Fred; how dare he not say each
and every productive worker or average productive worker!
What a relevant criticism of  his response to my questions
about Lexis' apparent ideas about
the reality of class subjects and the irreducibility of certain
macro phenomenon!

Thanks again for being part of the conversation. As usual you have
clarified my thinking and pointed me to the essential points.

Keep the posts coming; why not increase them to, say, 175 a day?

Comradely, Rakesh




(i.e. productive
labor as a proportion of the total labor equals 100%; unproductive labor
as a proportion of the total labor performed by wage-workers equals 0%).
Yet, in some of your published writings you emphasize the importance,
and the growing importance, of unproductive labor in relation to the
process of  capitalist accumulation. Ce' pasa?

In solidarity, Jerry



 Each and every worker produces surplus-value.  The quantity of
 surplus-value produced by each worker (Si) is determined by the surplus
 labor of each worker (SLi), as follows:

         Si  =  m SLi  =  m (CLi - NLi)          (CL is current labor)
                                                 (NL is necessary labor)

 The total surplus-value produced by the working class as a whole is
 determined by adding up the surplus-value produced by each individual
 worker:

         S  =  sum (Si)

 This total surplus-value is subsequently divided into individual parts:
 average industrial profit, commercial profit, interest, and rent.

 One could also say that the individual worker analyzed in Volume 1 is the
 average worker.  Then the total surplus-value would be determined by:

         S  =  n Sa

 The average worker represents all workers together.  The average worker is
 the average of all workers.

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