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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? |
| [56] Nena: The first part of Marx's book discussed commodity theory and Marx did a extensive study on this before any other theory. This is because that the analytical process of commodity theory provides a general theory of production relations of the commodity in capitalist economy. |
| Hans: You probably thought something when you wrote all this. Why don't you just talk normal? |
| [56] Nena: It also serves to distinguish Marx's critique of political economy from bourgeois economics. By studying commodity theory first, Marx can reveal to us the naked reality of capitalist relations of production and the unity and conflict between productive forces. And Marx thus saw commodity as the most basic and important topic of his discussion and critique of capitalism. |
| Hans: You are getting better. Perhaps if you answer this same question three more times, you would be able to recognize what you are really thinking about it and say it. |
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