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Yeah, but, bourgois contract law says those "intangibles" do have value within the meaning of the need for "consideration" or value for any contract to be valid. "imaginary price"? The uncultivated land comment is classic and strikes at the heart of something, because Marx or Shmarx, everyone knows land has big value (wasn't there some guy named Henry George?), present economic use value for grazing of livestock and imminent future value for construction and agriculture. With all due respect, like Creation Science, seems like another example of the ridiculous outcomes of idealist thinking that starts backwards from holy ideology to reorganize empirical facts to be congruent with it, instead of proceeding the other way around from concrete reality via "scientific method" in an open ended inquiry etc. I mean that's not "imaginary" money people are paying the "imaginary price" for land that has "no value" which might as well be "free"? C'mon. > Good question, but it should be directed at the fellow who wrote: > "Things which in and by themselves are not commodities, such as > conscience, honor, etc., can be put up for sale by their owners, and can > thus, through their price, acquire the commodity form. Hence a thing can > have a price without having value. In that case, the price expression is > imaginary, like certain magnitudes used in mathematical calculations. On > the other hand, the imaginary price form may sometimes conceal a direct > or indirect value relation; for instance, uncultivated land may have a > price, though it has no value, since no human labor has been > incorporated in it." > > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/tomcod3%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
