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Question 162: Why is it not possible that all Catholics are simultaneously popes?

[77] Hans: The Pope on Pilgrimage to Rome   Jazzdog [71] writes:

It is not possible for all Catholics to simultaneously be popes, just as it is not possible for linen serving as General equivalent to share in the relative form of value.

This is the wrong side of it. The General equivalent sharing in the relative form of value of the ordinary commodities, i.e., expressing its value by its exchangeability with the General equivalent, can be compared to the pope being an ordinary catholic. The pope cannot go to St. Peter's place in Rome, alongside other ordinary catholics, in order to receive God's grace. He cannot do this, because he is the one who has to stand up on the podium and dispense God's grace.

In his last sentence, Jazzdog switches over to the right side:

At a specific time, only a single commodity can have direct exchangeability; and only one Catholic can be a pope.

Yes, now you are talking. But this still needs to be elaborated.

I appreciate that Jazzdog was trying to make an independent argument using the methods how Marx argues.

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