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[78] Eatsono: Use-value and social relations. Marx writes “although use-values serve social needs and
therefore exist within a social context, they do not express
a social relation of production.” This statement refers to
the commodity as a whole. The production of a commodity is
irrelevant, until the final product, because a commodity may
need to take several steps before becoming a finished
commodity to trade or sell (e.g. human babies, fruits,
vegetables...). Lets take a pumpkin seed. This commodity is
not yet finished, but through human interaction watering and
nuturing the pumpkin seed it will one day grow to become a
pumpkin or a commodity. The human interaction is not
associated with the finished commodity, a pumpkin. The
commodity is a pumpkin and all the use and exchange values
of that pumpkin, not of the production of the pumpkin. The
“form” and the physical palpable existence of the commodity
is a staple for food, no relation to its production. |
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