| This question <128|128> overall <134-2|135-1> Hans: <129|136>. |
| Question 238: How, why, and through what is a commodity money? |
| [135] Hans: Creative Answers are Welcome Dragon [128] answers the three questions “how”, “why”, and “through what” in three different paragraphs: |
| “How”: commodities are money because they can be exchanged for money. |
| “Why”: commodities are converted into money because money is a social expression of value. |
| “Through what”: commodities are converted into money through the exchange process. |
| Furthermore Dragon also argues that money becomes more and more powerful, i.e., the conversion of everything into money becomes more and more central for society. |
| I like it because it is a very creative answer. It is not as close to the text as I would have wished because it started on the wrong foot: while Marx was thinking of the (logical and historical) development of money out of the commodity, Dragon was thinking of the exchange of a commodity for money. Marx wrote “a commodity is money” because many of the properties of money can already be found in the relationship between ordinary commodities. But imagination and creativity are needed to read Marx: therefore keep your creativity but also keep yourself open to what Marx says. |
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