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| Exam Question 86: What is the difference between labor and labor power? |
| [100] PowderNow: labor powers After further studying Marx, I will better answer the question of labor power vs. labor. Labor power is the potential to labor. It is the capacity to do useful labor in the production of a commodity. Labor is the actual work, the expenditure of human power to produce the commodity. One can sell their “labor power” to a capitalist for a wage. The capitalist then will make them “labor” to receive that wage. |
| The value of a commodity is determined by the labor power. This is because the value indicates the many different products that could have been produced instead of producing a certain commodity. Labor is performed by human labor power, which Marx says that there is no qualitative difference. So when products are exchanged, people look for the quantity of labor power in that commodity. |
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