This question <4|4> overall <6|8> Hans: <3|8>.  
  Question 3: Wouldn't scarcity be a better starting point for understanding how a given society is functioning than wealth? When there is scarcity, this means there is a need to act, whereas wealth consists of dead things. Scarcity leads us to discover what drives society, wealth does not.   
  [7] Hans: The relations of production are basic.   LeatherBoy [4] says: if we know how a society deals with its wealth, with what it has, we can understand its values and priorities. This approach to societies is quite different from Marx's. In Marx's view, one should not begin with values and priorities in order to understand societies. Marx holds that the organization of production is the most basic social relation which helps us explain the other social relations. Marx first investigates which social relations the members of society enter with each other in order to produce wealth. The distribution of wealth is determined by this, and all other social relations are affected and “colored” by this basic production relation.   
 
 
 
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