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Subject: Re: WR quotes - Sun, 10 Mar 1996 01:26:20 -0500
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 01:26:20 -0500
From: zzippy@cris.com (Christopher T. Phillips)
Message-Id: <199603100617.BAA29847@darius.cris.com>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: WR quotes
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
>In order to facilitate the presence of a little more Wilhelm Reich on this
>list, I've decided to periodically post quotes that I run across that I like
>by Wilhelm Reich. I invite others to participate that we might get some
>exposure for Reich's words. Since there is so much material written by Dr.
>Reich, this will allow us to sample some stuff that we weren't able to
>access or perhaps didn't know about. I don't think the quotes have to be
>limited to Reich, but if they are compatible with and concerning of Orgonomy
>then quote away. Please give the name of the reference as well as the page
>number and other relevent info so that others can find the source if they like.
> - dave huisken
>
>This quote is from "People In Trouble", chapter three, (The Living
>Productive Power, "Work-Power," of Karl Marx) pages 54-5.
>
> "Marx defined the concept "capitalist" scientifically. It is not, as
>is commonly assumed, an individual who possesses a lot of money, but a
>person who is able to buy and make use of the work-power of others on the
>basis of the laws of market economy. If, as a doctor, I am proficient in my
>field, cure numerous patients, and discover good methods of healing, then
>many sick people will come to me. They pay for my time and, along with this,
>for the value of my work-power. In order to do my work I must repeatedly
>renew my work-power, that is, I must eat, house myself, buy clothes, etc.
>This constitutes one part of the value of my work-power. But with this alone
>I could not carry on my specific work. I need, additionally, certain
>training which requires work and money, continuous expenditure of effort for
>further development, instruments, etc., upon which others have exerted their
>work-power. I pay for all this with portions of my work-power. Hence the
>patient must pay not only for my work-power but for all the work-power
>expended upon him through my work. This is done through the conventional
>value substitute "money," by means of which I, in turn, may purchase the
>results of other people's effort, such as shelter, food, clothing, etc.,
>i.e. use values. As long as I myself work, I am not a capitalist no matter
>how much money I earn. However, if I were to employ, let us say, four
>doctors, pay them a fixed salary of two hundred kronen a month, and use
>their eight-hour work-power to treat patients for me, then I would be a
>capitalist. Then I would be "exploiting" the work-power of others and
>appropriating the the value of their work-power in the form of money. In
>eight hours, I myself could treat eight patients and earn eight hundred
>kronen in twenty-five workng days. Four doctors, however, could earn four
>times as much, namely thirty-two hundred kronen. While I would have to pay
>the four doctors a total of eight hundred kronen, I could keep what was left
>of the thirty-two hundred kronen they had earned, thus acquiring twenty-four
>hundred kronen through the exploitation of other people's work-power without
>having worked for it myself. According to the laws of market economy, I
>would not be considered a swindler but would be acting entirely within the
>law. No one could prosecute me or accuse me of wrongdoing."
>
>
> Wilhelm Reich
>
>
>
> --- from list orgonomy@lists.village.virginia.edu ---
>
Well, this clearly shows that Dr. Reich was not an economist.
Christopher T. Phillips
<zzippy@concentric.net>
--- from list orgonomy@lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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