[Marxism] "necessary" and "surplus" labor time

[Gerry Cavanaugh]

I just saw the TCM movie, “There Goes My Heart,” produced in 1938.  
Frederick March plays a reporter who asks a shop girl, played by  
Patsy Kelly, “How much do you earn a week?” She replies: “Fifty  
dollars, but they only pay me eighteen.” I took this to be a subtle  
effort to educate people on the matter of “necessary” and “surplus”  
labor time, or how capitalism exploits labor  and garners the value  
generated by labor. One rarely sees or hears such lessons in the  
media today.

Gerald Cavanaugh
Socialist Action Party
gjcav at jeffnet.org