| This question <44|74> overall <67|69> Fritz: <67|69>. |
| Question 60: Labor power creates products. The value of the products comes from the value of labor power, and the use value from the use value of labor power. Is this a correct rendering of Marx's theory? |
| [68] Fritz: skinny puppy vs the stones TOAD wrote in [44] |
| The value of the coat only represents the amount of labor put into the production of the coat as the value of the linen only represents the amount of labor put into weaving the material. Therefore the coat has twice the value as the material. |
| yes TOAD, correct. |
| 1) i spend 1 hour picking cotton, spinning and weaving the linen |
| 2) using this linen I add 1 additional hour of my labor to create the coat |
| linen = 1 hour of embodied labor |
| coat = 2 hours of embodied labor |
| The use value of the material is half that of the coat because the two kinds of labor are of different qualities. The quality of the labor in the material is half the quality of the labor in the coat. |
| not “quality”, it should be quantity: The quantity of the labor embodied in the linen is half the quantity of labor embodied in the coat. |
| The use value of the fabric doubles when the coat is taylored because there is twice as much labor in the coat then there is in the linen. |
| spell check taylored should be tailored |
| grammar check “coat then there is” should be “coat than there is” |
| nein. . . |
| when you go to Blockbuster and are deciding whether you want to purchase a CD of Skinny Puppy or the Voodoo Lounge, you are comparing amounts of use value you will derive from each. |
| i doubt your comparison involved a measure of the amount of labor hours expended by Mick and Keith to the labor hours of the Puppies. |
| Cheers. Fritz |
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