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What is alienation?
First is that the laborss product is alien.
What is objectification?
Loss of object
What is the section of Marx a response to?
How does estranged labor make mans species-being a means to his
physical existence.
Labor theory of value
What does Marx mean by common substance?
(labor as a measure of value)
What is the upshot of the labor theory of value?
(that value is determined by the amount of labor time required to
produce a commodity)
How does this relate to the marginal theory of value?
With reference, especially to the last full paragraph on p. 50, is Marxs
claim concerning the relationship between the value of a coat and
linen coherent?
Commodity Fetishism
What is commodity fetishism?
(the fact that the (exchange) value of commodities is a form of social
relationship that is treated as a natural property of the objects, rather
than a function of the totally of social labor).
What does Marx mean when he says the social character of labor
appears to us to be an objective of the products themselves (p. 54).
What does Marx mean when he contrasts the value of gold and iron
with their weight? (p. 54)
Why is Marx making these claims?
(first full paragraph in p. 55)