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[86] Cowboy: Bourgeois economics my opinion. Bourgeois economics never attempted to derive the genesis of money for
two reasons. First I believe that they never understood the “genesis of
money.” The genesis of money can be demonstrated by the relation of
money and the labor put into producing a certain commodity. Money is the
general means of exchange on the market and the products brought to the
market have an input that they all share, “labor.” Marx stated that
commodities have a value form to them all which presents a marked
contrast to the varied bodily forms of their use values namely, their
money form. This is what Bourgeois economics focused on, was the fact
that every commodity carried the money form, that everything had a price
tag to it. Bourgeois economics did not see that the genesis of money
was the most important issue in their economy; just studying the
circulation of it was what they felt was important at the time.
This could be off of the wall but I think Marx felt that this was an
important issue because he lived in the time of the gold standard and
gold contains a lot of labor and has non monetary use values and he
could not understand why that product could be used for the exchange of
all commodities. |
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