| This question <83|159-1> overall <84|86> Hans: <82|86>. |
| Question 155: Assume there are 51 butchers in a barter society, and none of them is a chess player. Does this mean that the game of chess is not one of the Particular equivalents in the Expanded form of value of meat? |
| [85] Hans: Roundabout Trades not an Expression of Value Like Tolkien before him in [72], Calvin [83] suggests that the butcher can always make a trade involving more than two people, accepting the chess set for meat and then trading it for something he needs, say a knife. But this trade would depend on how many knives the butcher gets in his roundabout fashion, i.e., the butcher himself would not express the value of his meat in chess sets but in knives. Here I changed my mind because in [73] I still said that it was valid to include such roundabout trades in the Expanded form of value. |
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| It seems like all it takes is for one individual to have any interest for something to be of value. I may barter for something as stupid as pine cones but because I have some interest in pinecones they hold some type of value. |
| This would be exactly an example in which, as Marx says, “the exchange of commodities ... regulates the magnitude of their values,” something which Marx denies to be the case. Calvin gives this Marx quote but he seems to read into it just the opposite of what it actually says. |
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