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Question 109: What does the qualitative equation “linen = coat” tell us about the coat? about the linen?

[42] Golf: linen=coat   Marx uses this equation to tell us that the coat “counts as the form of existence of value, as the material embodiment of value, for only as such is it the same as the linen”. The coat has value, which can then be used to purchase linen.

The linen on the other hand is value that is expressed. Linen is associated with the coat as being equal in value to it, which then can be exchanged for the coat.

Although the linen and the coat play different parts, they both have value. And only when they have been reduced to the same unit, can they then be “comparable in quantitative terms”. Once they have been reduced, they have become a common commodity which can then be exchanged.

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