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[131] Jimmie: Commodities and Classes. Marx states that commodities provide the wealth of a capitalist society.
However, it is not the allocation and/or the distribution of commodities
that creates classes, it is the production. Therefore, classes of a
capitalistic society are defined by who owns and controls the means of
commodity production. This is why the study of commodities is important in
relation to classes. Capitalism is different from other modes of production
because the working class can only provide labor power and has no control
over the other forces of production. In contrast, in other modes of
production, such as feudalism, there was at least some control and ownership
of the means of production by the lower classes. |
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