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Question 80: Marx says that as use-values commodities do not contain an atom of value. Would he also say that the labor process does not contain an atom of abstract labor?

[15] AJ: Use-values.   No, Marx states on page 128 that if we abstract the use-value of a commodity only the labor that made it remains. But the labor itself has also been transformed because with its use-value gone, the products of labor that the maker of the commodity expended no longer exists. It is no longer a useful character within the commodity. The useful character is what distinguishes productive labor in the commodity itself. Once the useful character is gone the productive labor embodied within the commodity is also gone. Thus in Marx's eyes all the labor is reduced to human labor in the abstract.

Hans: In your second sentence, you originally had “extinguished.” I changed into “expended,” because the word “extinguished” does not fit here. Is this what you meant?

You are chaining isolated Marx quotes together in such a way that Marx's original meaning is lost.

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