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| Question 15: If Marx wanted to start his book with first principles, why did he pick the analysis of the commodity and not the analysis of the labor process or the analysis of value? |
| [34] Ghant: Marx approached economics from the standpoint of wealth, not scarcity, which meant dealing with the first priciple of wealth. Marx uses a commodity as the basic form of wealth, because “things” were around long before “money,” and what money could represent. So he began with an analysis of commodities. |
| Hans: On the contrary, Marx does not want to start with eternal principles of wealth, but with the historically specific social forms of it. You are overlooking that commodities are not just use values. Now it also becomes clear that you did not heve the right thing in mind when you wrote your terse answer to Question 3 [33]. |
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