| This question <39|44> overall <41|43> Yossarian: <42|42>. |
| Question 74: Does Marx assume that only equal values are exchanged on the market? |
| [42] Yossarian: No. In a truly Marxian economy, the value added to a specific commodity through labor would go directly back to those who added the value in the first place. As this is not the case, Marx argues that labor is exploited and should be given the value of the commodity that their labor adds to it. Instead, according to Marx, the workers are given (as I believe Marx might have called it) “The Capitalist Shaft” or “Die Kapitalist-Welle” as it were. |
| Hans: Don't call it a “truly Marxian economy.” The law of value, according to which all value is created by labor, holds in capitalism. It is not a good law because it concentrates too much on one factor of production, leaving out environmental concerns. |
| Marx's goal is not a wage high enough so that profits are eliminated, but his goal is the abolition of wage-labor. Laborers should collectively be their own bosses rather than working for the capitalist, and production should be for use-value rather than for exchange-value. |
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