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| Question 86: Use-value is the quality of the commodity, and exchange-value is its quantity. Right or wrong? |
| [328] Hans: Use-Value Independent of Labor Input. Marx says the use-value of the commdity comes from its physical properties, not from the labor put into the commodity. In exam resubmission [321], Kibosh quotes the relevant passage from Marx, and concludes from this that it doesn't matter for the use-value whether it is the result of a shoddy rush job or whether much labor was put in to perfect the product. |
| This is a misunderstanding. A shoddy rushed commodity almost certainly has a lower use-value than one that is lovingly elaborated and costs a lot of labor. But this difference in use-value does not come from the difference in labor put in but from the difference in the physical characteristics of the commodities. Even though more labor gives better physical properties, therefore a higher use-value of the commodity, this higher use-value comes from the physical properties of the commodity, not the labor necessary to produce it. |
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