| This question <119|110> overall <120|122> Hans: <116|122>. |
| Question 76: Why is labor measured here by labor-time, and not by counting how many movements were made, or by the drops of sweat of the laborer, or by the discomfort of the laborer? |
| [121] Hans: Let me say it again. Here is another attempt to make the same argument I already tried in [111]: |
| The question reads: “Why is labor measured here by labor-time ...”, not: “Why does Marx measure labor by labor-time.” With good reason. |
| Das Kapital is a theory of capitalism. Marx is not the one who is doing the measuring. Marx thinks that in the capitalist market, prices depend on labor content, this labor content being measured by time. Question 76 is therefore asking: what arguments, if any, did Marx bring, or what arguments can you bring in favor of Marx's thesis, that in the labor theory of value the quantity of labor is measured by time and not by the other alternatives given in the question? |
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