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There are prescriptive statements, and there are descriptive statements. You cannot
prove that a moral norm is fallacious, fictitious or false, and you cannot prove that a
prescriptive statement is untrue or untruthful. Descriptive statements are empirical
statements, scientific statements, positive statements; but, prescriptive statements
are theoretical statements, putative statements, confessional statements.
A solitary individual cannot employ their solitary labor to create industrial-scale capital.
Industrial capital is always a direct creation of social labor, a clear product of associated
labor. And, industrial-scale capital is always directly employed by social labor. And,
because industrial capital is both a creation of associated labor, and an operation or a
function of associated labor, such large-scale capital ought properly to be the associated
property of associated labor.
Ideological capitalists believe that the worth of a capitalist is their creation of capital,
and such a belief certainly implies that they judge the worth of a capitalist on their
capital-creating labors. However, capital proprietors are not the producers of capital,
just as investors in development and innovative design are not the inventors of new
industrial mechanisms and factory instruments. Only in capitalist ideology is the
difference between proprietor and producer obscured and confused in favor of the
proprietors. Only in capitalist thinking is the difference between investors and
inventors obscured and confused on the side of the investors.
"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses."
-- Marcus Porcius Cato |
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Posted by rallen2 on 2008-03-21 11:47:01 | Rating: | Views: 26
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