| This question <110|119> overall <110|112> Hans: <106|113>. |
| Question 76: Why is labor measured here by labor-time, and not by counting how many movements were made, or by the drops of sweat of the laborer, or by the discomfort of the laborer? |
| [111] Hans: Beware of the pitfalls. BonzoIsGod's [110] sounds as if the measurement of the quantity of labor that determines the quantity of value of a commodity was consciously decided by Marx himself according to some socially fair and useful principles. |
| Marx is not deciding how to measure labor time in a fair society. Marx is researching how the quantity of labor is measured in the relations of production of today's far-from-fair capitalism. Das Kapital is not a blueprint for a better society but an analysis of capitalism. This will become much clearer once we get past the first three chapters, once we get from the deceptive sphere of the market into production itself. But it is not possible to understand the book if you think it is about socialism. |
| You have been warned. If someone else brings a contribution in the future in which they think that Capital is a blueprint for a better society, their grade will be penalized. |
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