| This question <28|35> overall <31|33> Hans: <31|37>. |
| Question 66: Why does Marx write in 127:1 “the valid exchange-values,” instead of simply “the exchange-values”? |
| [32] Hans: Valid exchange-values. The thing left unsaid by ZACH in [28] is that the lumber company sells their products at a higher price than their own costs. ZACH is arguing that the marked-up price is not too high but that this is indeed the valid price for the commodities sold. |
| Marx would agree with this. According to his theory, the markup does not come from a too-high price but from a too-low cost: the workers, whose labor enables the product to fetch this handsome market price, are paid much less than an equivalent of the value they add to the product. |
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