[1rudeboy]

Funny, how the first sentence of your reply laments strawman arguments, yet is one itself. And the folks arguing the Labor Theory of Value on this thread are not doing so in the tradition of Smith and Ricardo. In fact, highlighting the antipathy shown their work on threads such as these, as well as the tacit agreement with other works of Marx (On the Question of Free Trade, anyone?--possibly the single most misunderstood speech on FR) is not a strawman argument, unless your definition of one is "pointing out something I find inconvenient."

[A. Pole]

not doing so in the tradition of Smith and Ricardo

Are Smith and Ricardo some type of infallible oracle or unholy prophets? Is your freemarket ideology a cult? You guys treat their writings like Muslims treat Koran.

See my tagline.