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[48] SF: Labor time Marx looks at this whole subject from a societal viewpoint. That is,
instead of examining the individual trees per se in society, he instead
looks at the entire forest. Thus, it is the cumulative value in society
that is produced by the cumulative labor power. Since value is
determined on a level higher than that of one individual, it makes little
sense to look at labor power on an individual basis, given the hypothesis
that labor power is what creates value. When Marx writes “It is as
if the different individuals had thrown their labor time together...”, he
means that while they didn't do it consciously, it happened
nevertheless. This pool of labor is what creates the value, not any one
individual per se. These workers have combined their labor into a pool,
the same pool that determines value, and thus this labor power is then
allocated to the various use values accordingly. |
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