On the Question of Increasing Productivity; Harry Magdoff Responds; Economic Surplus and Class Struggle

Abstract

Dear Harry: At the Socialist Scholar's Conference you attacked the concept of "productivity." As I remember, you had previously done so in an MR article. I read your position as saying that because productivity cannot be measured in many cases (or is it all cases?) the concept lacks reality.

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