Re: Productivity

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> Of course it is more productive. But that is not the point that Marx was
> making.

Marx wrote:

> Large-scale industry and
> industrially pursued large-scale agriculture have the same effect. If they
> are originally distinguished by the fact that the former lays waste and
> ruins labour-power and thus the natural power of man, whereas the latter
> does the same to the natural power of the soil, they link up in the later
> course of development, since the industrial system applied to agriculture
> also enervates the workers there, while industry and trade for their part
> provide agriculture with the means of exhausting the soil.