Re: Re: Productivity

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Doug wrote:
>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.
>

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