| This question <551|561> overall <553|555> Ann: <553|558>. |
| Question 176: Why are commodities not interested in each other's use values? |
| [554] Ann: Commodities are not interested in each others use values because the value of these commodities exists in the owners of the commodities and not in the commodities themselves. Commodity A is not interested in commodity B because they do not have human wants and desires that allow them to be of interest to one another. The owners of the commodities are the holders of the values because they have human desires of monetary and subsistent needs that need to be met through the exchange process of these commodities. |
| Hans: Don't use the word “value” here, what you mean is utility. I think you are going in the direction of [551] use value is really a relationship between commodities and the outside, while the exchange relations are relations among the commodities themselves. |
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