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  Question 205: Commodity producers do not exchange their products because they consider these products as the materials shells of homogeneous human labor. Marx claims that, on the contrary, the market interactions induce them to unknowingly equalize their labors. Describe the process by which they equalize their labor, and the goals which they pursue in this process.   
  [158-1] Kapitalism: In reexamining my response to question 205, I would like to readdress the relationship between the quantitative and the qualitative measurements in the labor process. Marx observes that the capitalist's attempt to outwit the law of value perpetuates the process by unbalancing natural forces. Moreover, capitalists attempt to alter qualitative functions to stay ahead of the production process. It is through labor value that value is discovered. Marx asserts that in an environment of ever changing “proportions between the products,” price will naturally balance out, not by capitalists making the same mistakes of trying to force change. By laying off employees when other companies do, capitalists are trying to outwit the system by staying ahead of market forces. In turn, they are only continuing the cycle. Thus capitalists attempting to use methods that exist in nature to deal with their social constraints, lose control of their ability to master the very market properties they are setting out to control. Natural forces will remain constant despite what people do to alter them, the same cannot be said about the ability of the producers to change prices. Their influence can alter price, but in the end they are not in any more control than when they started out to reset market prices.   
 
 
 
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