| This question <40|39> overall <48|50> Hans: <48|53>. |
| Question 107: In the Simple or Accidental form of value, which commodity plays an active role, and which a passive role? Explain what it means in this situation to be active or passive. |
| [49] Hans: Two Explanations of the Linen's Initiative Perro [39] and Maktub [40] give quite different explanations why the linen is active and the coat passive. Perro gives pretty much the right explanation: the linen weaver has put her labor into the linen, and now she is hungry, therefore she needs someone who exchanges her linen for something she can use. |
| Maktub has a completely different explanation: the linen itself has very little use value. It actively seeks to express its use value. In the production process of the coat out of linen, the linen is active and the coat passive. This is of course completely wrong, this is not at all what Marx is talking about, and also not what Perro is talking about. But it does have a certain creativity. |
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