Re: Marx and justice

On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:

Yet the Golden Rule seems realized in the free market, not contravened.

In a really really perverse way: the “value” of a human is what it
takes to get him or her through the factory gate tomorrow morning.
Wouldn’t anyone with heart read that and admire the cleverness of the
“proof” that labor trades at its value, and be horrified by a system
that defines things that way?

I can understand the impulse to avoid a moralizing politics; there’s
nothing more grating than hearing Helen Caldicott go on about “the
children.” But you can get carried away with being scientific too.

Doug

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