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| Question 370: The empirical appearance of the processes of sale and purchase encourages a naive mistake, which makes it difficult to understand the metamorphosis of the commodity. Which mistake? |
| [561-2] Geek: The mistake is that you are thinking that you are exchanging your commodity you produced (say shoes) for gold. Even though there is an actual physical exchange, you are not really doing this. What you are really doing is just transforming the use value of the shoes for exchange value of gold. One ends up with enough money to buy the shoes back if wanted. Metamorphosis is just passing through different forms, from one form to another. Your commodity “morphed” from being a use value to an exchange value. |
| The real exchange does not take place until you exchange the gold for another commodity (in this case, socks). You agree upon an exchange price, and morph your exchange value (shoes use value transformed to exchange value of gold) for the use-value of the socks. |
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