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#132 Phil Armstrong: Greece, The Euro & Getting The Money Story Right

The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

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Capitalism and the Theory of Value

Philip Johnson: The value of a commodity is determined by the amount of labor hours put into it. So what capitalist does net all your, if you like, surplus is generated by the additional working hours that workers are putting into producing commodities,. But they are appropriated in when they exchange things. And the problem, the contradiction of capitalism is you can't exploit machines, because machines have already been exploited their dead labor so you can only exploit people.

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