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| Question 397: What does Marx mean with the aphorism: “Money may be dirt, although dirt is not money. |
| [320] Kibosh: Money is money. I believe the point Marx is trying to make is related to the universality of money. He states that from the physical appearance of money you can not tell what it may be changed/traded for. We may know what in today's standards it is equal to. However, the physical look of a dollar doesn't tell what the future of that dollars value is. The money is shown as a sale of some good to acquire another. It is merely an intermediary note of current value. |
| I think Marx's statement “money may be dirt” could be changed to “money is not only dirt” but it is every commodity in the world. This is true because everything has a value, whether this value is intrinsic or professed by society/market values. |
| Hans: According to Marx, the price of a commodity has nothing to do with its “intrinsic” or “society” value, but only with its labor content. |
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