Re: restart - re: Marxism

Sun, 11 Jan 1998 14:40:40 -0500 (EST)
Andrew Wayne Austin (aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu)

Richard,

You wanted me to go through your post and see what I find fault with.
Your post was vague. For example, you write:

> First of all, I find the "labor theory of value" to be totally unsound,
> entirely too simplistic. Creativity, initiative, vision, risk-taking, and
> good judgement - in setting up and managing an operation - all create
> value, as does labor, but in a multiplicative way.

I don't know exactly how to evaluate the claim: "I find the 'labor theory
of value' to be totally unsound, entirely too simplistic."

If you can clarify this it would help.

Thanks,
Andy

PS--Are you saying that workers are not creative, lack initiative, have
poor judgment, and don't take risks? I find it interesting that the man
who wrote an essay on the nature of capitalist propaganda ("Doublespeak
and the New World Order") would advance an argument littered with
quintessential capitalist buzz words like "initiative" and "risk."