| This question <9|152-1> overall <12|14> Hans: <11|14>. |
| Question 18: If Marx wanted to start his book with first principles, why did he pick the analysis of the commodity and not the analysis of the labor process or the analysis of value? |
| [13] Hans: Why Start with Value? Capitalism is not the only possible social organization of production; it is therefore not possible to derive capitalism from a look at production in general. One needs something that is specific to capitalism. |
| Value is something specific to capitalism, but it is not concrete enough. The commodity is concrete, and from there Marx goes over to the value of commodities in a second step. |
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