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| Question 198: Which characteristics of value are expressed better in the Expanded form of value than in the Simple form, and what are the defects of the Expanded form? |
| [69] Diesel: Characteristics of value. The simple form of value, in Marx's example, is compared to the “words” of a sentence. “The value of a commodity is contained in its value in relation to another commodity of another kind.” He also states that value in the simple form is quantitatively exchangeable ie: being able to exchange commodity A for commodity B. (Example: we use money to buy goods and goods to buy money.) |
| The expanded form of value says that the value of a commodity becomes “mirrored” in all other commodities. The value of a commodity and its exchange value does not connote what value is in other commodities. The expanded form of value states that the “magnitude of value of commodities regulates the proportion in which they are exchanged.” |
| Sentences, in most cases, are supposed to have a subject, verb, etc. If we read a sentence and do not understand a word in the sentence, the words around it give connotation to that word and may help define it. Likewise, if we know one word in a sentence, but not the meaning of the sentence, the one word would help only a little. |
| The simple form of values compares commodity A to B and the exchange values of both, which give meaning to values of commodities on a simple scale. The expanded form incorporates mirrors the meaning of commodities and loses or gives little connotation to the meaning of value. |
| Hans: Your original submission contained several typos and grammatical inconsistencies which I tried to correct in the version now in the pdf archives. Please check if I interpreted you right and let me know. I recommend that you take advantage of the University Writing Center to learn to write in such a way that people can understand what you mean. |
| I could not make sense of your very last sentence. I thought of two ways of making it grammatically consistent, either (my addition emphasized) |
| The expanded form incorporates or mirrors the meaning of commodities, and loses or gives little connotation to the meaning of value. |
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| The expanded form incorporates mirrors of the meaning of commodities, and loses or gives little connotation to the meaning of value. |
| Neither of those makes much sense to me. Since I could not figure out what you mean, I left the sentence as it is. Please email me a grammatically consistent version of this sentence. |
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