Sounds like a modern "scientific" thinker failing to understand Marx's method, not indecision on Marx's part. (I don't know Sraffa, either, I could be WAY off.)
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Who knows. It always struck me as a plausible critique of labour theories of value hitherto: labour is conceived there as part of the means of production. (Sraffa thought wages as the same as feed for animals btw.)
Not trying to be difficult, where is labor conceived that way? For Sraffa? That perspective seems to collapse labor - the activity - and laborpower - the commodity.
It is conceived that way anywhere it is conceived as part of the production process - a commodity among others but the only one that creates value. Sraffa rejects that.
Yet, for my variety of Marxist, at least, labor is a class or a general process... the factor or commodity under capitalism is laborpower, otherwise people would be contracting their selves rather than for their particular skillset/talents.
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