Grr. Corrected paragraph (note ***):
What I guess confuses people is that Marx says, distinguish between use value and value. Value is a social form. There's not an atom of use value in it. Value (with its mystical cloaks and illusions, market prices, rents, profits, etc.) is all *social*. It is a *form*. The *content* of that form, on the other hand, is *material*. The proportions that appear as values, prices, etc. are determined by the proportions in which these goods are useful to us. The usefulness of goods is a *material* thing. The what of these proportions, the "substance" that goes into them is -- ultimately -- our socialized labor, which is the flow of the productive forces of our labor. But, wait, didn't Marx said that value had nothing to do with ***use*** value? No, no. Marx says that the value *form* does not have to do with ***use*** value. Nowhere did Marx say that specific values (proportions of SNLT) have nothing to do with use value. On the contrary, he said exactly the opposite. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
