| This question <158-2|172-13> overall <161|162> Boar: <160-2|271>. |
| Question 145: Which two steps in the analysis of value did Aristotle make correctly, and which step did he not make? |
| [161-1] Boar: The two steps in the analysis Aristotle made on value were the following: 1. the very first thing Aristotle notices in a commodity-filled society is that a person making an exchange for money is basically making the same exchange for a commodity. 2. Aristotle then sees that it is not possible for there to be an exchange if it is done without equality. |
| Now the part he missed according to Marx is by stressing the point that in reality it is not a possibility that different things can be qualitatively equal. |
| Marx does go on to say that the reason why Aristotle missed this third point on value was because he was limited in his particular time in history and society. |
| Hans: To say it more clearly, Aristotle did not see that value comes from labor because labor was not equal in his society. |
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