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[262] Walmart: The idea of value comes from commodities being
produced, sold, and traded on the market. The
explanation has to start with commodity because that
is the concept Marx uses throughout the rest of his
work to explain the parts of a system. The concepts
are all related because they have a central theme,
which is the commodity. It is also convenient to
start with commodity because a commodity has value as
its essence. The value comes from the abstract labor
which was put into the creation of that commodity.
The exchange-value comes from the interplay of social
relations of the market. Important aspects of market
economy (wages, costs, profits, demand, and so on) all
stem from this basic explanation of commodity, whose
analysis points to value. The title and structure of
his analysis paints a much clearer and connected
picture of capitalism, as opposed to starting from an
important aspect with many premises without explanations. |
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