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[174] Hans: Does use-value depend on the user? No, it doesn't. A thing has use-value if its properties are
such that they are useful to humans. If Marx says that
every commodity, in order to be exchangeable, must have
use-value, he is thinking that it must be in principle
usable, not that every single person will want to use it.
If the question arises whether something is useful for a
specific person, Marx uses the idiom “use-value for” that
person, for instance he says that the commodity has no
use-value for its producer. But without this “for,”
use-values are independent of the individuals using the
product. |
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