| This question <63|61> overall <53|55> Josef: <441|138-19>. |
| Question 140: Assume there are 51 butchers in a barter society, and none of them is a chess player. Does this mean that the game of chess is not part of the Expanded form of value of meat in this society? (I don't know the answer myself.) |
| [54] Josef: converted commodity The expanded form of value expresses the value of a certain commodity in terms of all other commodities. Also Marx states that the labor used to produce a commodity is equal to the labor used to produce the quantified amount of a different commodity. |
| Therefore although the game of chess is not played by the butchers in the meat society it does not eliminate the value of the labor it took to make the game. |
| The possibility of a future exchange between chess and meat is not eliminated. One of the butchers in the meat society may change his preferences and want to play chess. |
| Hans: Although all your arguments were in favor of chess being part of the Expanded form of value, you never said explicitly that you thought this was the answer. It would have made your submission clearer and easier to follow it you had said this. |
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