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[135] Pizza: substance of value The substance of value from the perspective of a social scientist is that
value which is separate from the exchange relation between two
commodities. You note that we should skip over Marx's analogy to the
butric acid and propyl formate but lets apply this structure again. Lets
take two bandanna's each same size, shape etc.. identical in all
material fact excepting their colors. One's color is red and the
other is blue. The exchange relations are equivalent. A gang member of
the bloods walks into a store and looks at the two bandana's and having
no value for the blue bandanna purchases the red and walks out, why? The
substance of value for the red bandana was its embodiedment of value in
the eyes of the blood's as a representation of their neihborhood, membership
in a unit of brotherhood that only held its
value within their own society. This is not a quantifiable value as
the exchange value the blue bandana equates the same but does not embody
the substance of value that the red bandana did. The substance value not
only is unrelated to the quantifiable exchange but is additionaly
dependent upon those in which the embodiedment of its value rests. |
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