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[53] JasonG: Wrong Answer for Quantity of Value. Marx provides the wrong answer of measuring the
quantity of value by the actual labor-time to lead the
reader to his suggestion of socially necessary labor. Marx
is not attempting to say “this is what I think”
but he intends to introduce his theories through a deductive
thought process. Hans points out in [2003fa:54] that
“Marx therefore did not just pick a mistake out of the
blue, but he explains here how the general concern about
labor-time, which all societies have, is handled in
commodity producing societies.” Marx is aware that
society subscribes to the belief that actual labor-time
determines value and he needs to debate that theory and
establish its faults before suggesting an alternative. In
[2003fa:39], Catfish
suggests that Marx is doing this to emphasize the point
relating to socially necessary labor. My answer is along
the same lines as Catfish, but I further this point by
suggesting that Marx has to debate and refute the belief of
actual labor-time to lend credibility to his theory. |
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