
Lecture 2 - Value and Anti-Value
Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)
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Introduction
This is going to be a bit of an unusual session for me because I'm actually working from a text. The topic this week is anti-value. But I get into it the following way. Nothing can be a value without being an object of utility. If the thing is useless, so is the labor contained in it. That passage which you see on the main graph here in which we move from the commodity which is produced to was utilized in money form. Commodities made in love with money, as he later points out, and of course the true love never did not smooth.
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