Re: Productive/Unproductive Labour

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wasn't arguing with your point. I was using it as a take-off point to
raise a (possibly) connected way of looking at the whole complex of
topics. Perhaps I should have changed the subject line.

Carrol

paul phillips wrote:
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> Carrol Cox wrote:
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> >The distinction between productive/unproductive (and perhaps reproductive) labor then
> >can't either be accepted or rejected on the basis of economic
> >statistics. ?????
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> This was not the point I was trying to make -- indeed the opposite.
>  What I was saying is that the theoretical/philosophical distinction
>  between productive and unproductive labour  is a useful tool in
> understanding recent economic trends.  The fact that the empirical data
> seems to support Marx's distinction is, however, welcome.
>
> Paul Phillips