Re: [microsound] apples and elephants

[David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/27/06, Xdugef <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But I'm not the one that brought him up in the first place in reference
> to socialism.
>
> Doesn't placing "value" on art make one a capitalist? ;-)

No, placing a value on art does not in any sense make one a
capitalist. Socialism revolves around who owns the means of
production. In fact, Marxism says that workers are the source of
value, and that under capitalism, they do not receive a portion of it,
called surplus value, which instead goes to the capitalists as profit.

So, under socialism, artists should receive MORE of the value of their
work not less. This wouldn't apply, of course, to the absurd prices
which collectors pay for luxury works, but rather to the work done by
more ordinary artists.

~D

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