The point MArx was making, I believe, is that the more surplus labor there is, the more it <b>drives wages down</b> because of the competition for jobs, so capitalists find "surplus labor" to be quite a good thing. Barbara Kessel <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:29 PM, David Green <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Karen Medina <<a href="mailto:kmedina67@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmedina67@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Peace Discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tue, September 7, 2010 2:10:11 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Peace-discuss] "Emerging adulthood"<br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<br>> ...what we have here is a youthful, healthy, highly-skilled, and<br>> economically desperate pool of surplus labor. This is to the benefit of<br>> corporations, educational institutions, NGOs, the low-paid service sector,<br>
> the military, and the prison-industrial complex. Of course, in spite of the<br>> global spirit of desperate competition, winners and losers remain<br>> predictable in aggregate on the basis of their economic backgrounds, albeit<br>
> with notable exceptions that reinforce the rule. All of this constitutes
the<br>> so-called “meritocracy” in the neoliberal era.<br><br>Interesting paragraph, David. And well written.<br><br>The idea of surplus labor is worth looking closer.<br>Because I think there is plenty of work to be done.<br>
* Rebuild New Orleans<br>* put out fires in Colorado<br>* put up some windmills<br>* harvesting fields in Illinois [my cousin is in need of some farm help]<br><br>Isn't there a way to rearrange workers to take up the work that needs<br>
to be done.<br>Oh, wait, the CCC and WPA ...<br><br>-karen medina<br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
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