| This question <105|184> overall <181|184> Daniel: <129|210>. graded B |
| Question 223: Describe the joint work of all commodities which is necessary to appropriately express the value of one commodity. |
| [182] Daniel: There are a few different factors that go into the determination of value in a commodity. We call the combination of these factors the ”joint work of all commodities.“ In order to descibe this joint work we must examine the value of commodities which makes them exchangeable. ‘When Marx refers to value within a commodity he is talking about the congealed abstract labor inside the commodities.’ (Hans [105]). It is this labor that represents part of the joint work required, in order to give value to a commodity. |
| Hans: You are saying here and in your third paragraph that the abstract labor which gives commodities value is a social thing. This is right, but it is not what Marx meant with the joint work at this place. The quote in your next sentence defines this joint work, and this quote talks about something completely different than the rest of your answer. |
| [182] Daniel: The joint work of all commodities is the ”willingness to accept one and the same commodity as the general equivalent (Gregory [98]). |
| Thus, the analysis of this joint work of commodities comes down to the labor force. When determining labor time one must further analyze the means of measuring labor-time. How much labor is going into the product? As Hans says in his [105], labor time is not the actual labor time used to produce the commodity but the “socially necessary time” to make the commodity. This takes labor and value off the shoulders of the individual and hands it over to society as a whole. It factors in laziness and the unskilled laborors and thus creates a more accurate measurement of the amount of joint-work (on the social scale). |
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