tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157640748260442988.post5461668272462177758..comments2024-03-04T05:58:47.153+01:00Comments on The world (and books): Is Marx' value law anthropocentric?Carl Cassegardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15403509890553232521noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157640748260442988.post-53084260935887829612018-06-08T12:40:08.154+02:002018-06-08T12:40:08.154+02:00You formulate it well and I agree that value-creat...You formulate it well and I agree that value-creating (abstract) labour can only be identified retrospectively, after validation. But I wonder if the problem can be entirely side-stepped. There does, after all, seem to be important differences between waged and unwaged labour (despite both being "concrete" in the sense of creating use-values), not to speak of between such forms of labour and, say, energy in the abstract. My argument isn't that there is any special substance that creates value, but that the wage-form is crucial. Carl Cassegardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15403509890553232521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157640748260442988.post-58790515136122137272018-06-07T06:50:22.833+02:002018-06-07T06:50:22.833+02:00The whole problem can be side-stepped, I think, by...The whole problem can be side-stepped, I think, by moving away from an anyways flawed concept of value in which value substance is somehow "created" in the production process. What instead must be seen is that, in exchange, all the various dissociated concrete labors that went into producing different commodities are equalized as abstract, associated labor in commodity exchange, in which the commodities are validated as values. Value is<br />the social form taken on by products of labor set into the universal exchange relation. This way we do not have the futile question of how it is that labor (or abstract, socially necessary labor) is some "substance" which possesses<br />"value-creating" powers-- it is rather as A RESULT of the validation of the commodity-product in exchange that the concrete particular labors expended on the product are recognized as abstract and universal.Stephen Dedalushttp://stillstellung.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com