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Introduction to Theory: Karl Marx

Money on the Left

CHAPTER

The Commodity Form Is Alienating

Cmana: The way that abstract value works is by objectifying human labor time through mathematical equivalents. He'll say, look, part of use value is that we we have a sense of how much time we spend on things. And what he's going to call socially necessary labor time will be relative to whatever society you're in at any given moment.

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