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| Exam Question 86: What is the difference between labor and labor power? |
| [27] PowderNow: labor power Marx refers to labor power as the potential to do useful work which plays into and influences the value of a commodity. Labor power is the potential production power. It is labor power that workers sell to capitalists for a wage. |
| Labor is the work; the exercise of human powers to alter the use value or add value to the product. Labor is the actual act of production. The products of labor can be bought and sold as commodities. |
| A person who cannot sell the products of labor can in-fact sell their own “power to labor”. This is promising to “labor” under the direction of a purchaser in exchange for a wage. |
| Hans: You write that the potential to do useful work “plays into and influences the value of a commodity.” This is similar to an error Cartman made in [3], which I discussed at length in [7]. You are lucky that this answer is not graded, because the repetition of an error which I had discussed this clearly would have depressed your grade considerably. |
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