[Marxism] A cop is a cop is a cop (was: Sen. Obama voices "respect" for Bell verdict, repeats suggestion of "excessive violence")

[Lüko Willms]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:35:39 +0200, Johannes Schneider wrote:

 
> > the police force does 
> > not exist to produce value, or to distribute the produced surplus 
value, 
> 
> So what's about teachers in state-run schools or workers in the public 
health system? Obviously they dont produce surplus value. So arent they 
part of the working class either?
> 
  
  I'd say they are working on producing and reproducing the labor power. 
David Picón Alvarez mentioned that at least to a certain extent, 
teachers and medical workers are also exploited labor, allowing their 
employer to appropriate a part of the socially produced surplus value. 


Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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