| This question <570-1|102> overall <100|102> Desarrollo: <72|333>. graded B– |
| Question 176: Describe the joint work of all commodities which is necessary to appropriately express the value of one commodity. |
| [101] Desarrollo: The work that gives value. Through comparison with other commodities a commodity gains value. This “general form of value” is a combined effort of the ‘warenwelt’ or commodity-world. In this world the reality of a commodity is its value. The work of all commodities that goes into expressing the value of each new commodity is a constant task, with each new commodity following suit of those that preceeded it. |
| This process of commodities being compared to one another is due to the social need for a commodity to have a value. Social actors act to create a form of value which is generally useful. This value is the general value and it is valid to the society in general. |
| Because this is a general value, there is no one actor who influences value more than another, it is “all-sided”. It is not really the commodities that do the work, but their existence in the society of the warenwelt entails a value. |
| Hans: Commodities receive their value not through comparison with other commodities, but through the labor that went into their production. And the question where a commodity gets its value from is a different question than how it can express its value. |
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