| This question <158|158> overall <160-2|161-1> Hans: <160|162>. |
| Question 241: Marx depicts commodities as conscious beings which are eager to be exchanged, but do not care about the use value of the commodity they are exchanged for. Why are commodities, which are inanimate things, depicted here as beings with their own will, and why do they not care about the use value of the other commodity? |
| [161] Hans: Needed: A Simple and Short Answer Pepper's [158] is a good restatement of things said in Marx's text and the Annotations and the Question. But the question why commodities are depicted as beings with their own will only gets an implicit answer, not a direct one. And the question why they don't care about the use value of the other commodity is not answered at all, Pepper just restates that they don't care. Can anyone explain these two questions in plain words, succinctly and without beating around the bush? |
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