Re: [PEN-L] Re: empiricism in p.e.

[Romain Kroes <kroes@xxxxxxx>]

Gerald Levy wrote:
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Why
> > is it "more important to determine the rate of exploitation through a
> > rejection of wage share" than to explore income polarlization? What does it
> > reveal?
>
> You seem to be asking: "what does exploitation reveal?" [!]
>
> > In
> > general, "productive" workers are better paid than "unproductive" ones -
> > who feels and looks more exploited.
>
> To define productive and unproductive labour, don't you first have to
> define surplus value?
>
> > Value categories may be important for
> > examining the inner dynamics of capitalist economies,
>
> Well ... that's certainly a wishy-washy statement. Are they important or
> are they not? If they are important, how are they important? Please be
> specific.
>
> Jerry

May be is it relevant to distinguish tribute and profit ?
Why hasn't Marx success in trying (during fourteen years) to transform
his "surplus value rate" into a "profit rate" ?