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Question 131: In Contribution, [mecw29]270:1, Marx writes: “Although use-values serve social needs and therefore exist within a social context, they do not express a social relation of production.” Why not?

[56] Toma: social relations.   We have studied that it is the labor, specific personal labor is what is used to create the use value found in the body of the commodity. Social relation as such is not there between the commodities. The use value comes through the form and the body of the commodity. It does not come from relations or through relations with other individual commodities. Economic agents of the commodity see its use value through specific human labor rather than social relations.

Hans: Regaring your second sentence: commodities do have social relations with each other, their exchange relations.

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