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[50] Sprockets: Human/Mirror The comparison of a commodity and a human being that is not born with a
mirror in its hand leads me to think of a commodity that needs another
commodity to show its value, as in a mirror, by comparison. Marx's
example of Peter and Paul (footnote to 144:1) demonstrates this
with “Peter only relates to himself as a man through his relation to
another man, Paul, in whom he recognizes his likeness.” Commodities
relate to each other in this sense with the example of how “commodity B
becomes the mirror which reflects the value of commodity A”
[144:1]. This is how the example of the human born without a
mirror in its hand (commodity A) needs another human (commodity B) to
compare with in order to be given its own value. |
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