| This question <72|75> overall <72|75> Hans: <71|79>. |
| Question 57: What is the difference between mode of expression and form of appearance? |
| [73] Hans: The coats were made of wool. Pete's [72] is a well formulated mini-essay and intelligent guess, but it does not accurately reflect Marx's use of the words. Marx talks a lot about linen and coats in chapter One, but the relationship between them is a pure exchange relationship, it is not the relationship between raw material and finished product. The coat Marx was thinking about was a woolen coat. Pete's error is often made in this class, and I addressed it on the bottom of p. 78 in the printed version of the Annotations. Please take a note of it. Anyone who makes this error in the future will have his or her grade penalized. |
| Pete: With all due respect when I wrote this answer I was not aware of the bottom of page 78 even existed. It was a honest incorrect assumption. I now know that it is not comparing linen to anything but itself. |
| Hans: How can you compare something with itself? According to Marx's theory, the market rates of exchange between coat and linen come from a comparison, through market competition, of the labors in coat and linen. |
| Pete: I am puzzled. OK we cannot compare coats and linens, and linens cannot be compared to themselves, the only other factor is labor. Is that what we are comparing to get to a value? |
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