On commodities

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like Marx was wrong, after all. Our wonderful list friends
have discovered that THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE ON 'CAPITAL'
states a senseless idea. I would honestly not write anything on this,
but there is just something I would like to recall these comrades:

The fact that something is not "for sale" does  not mean that it is
not a "commodity".

"Commodities" are not things, are social relations in the sense that
under the conditions of capitalism everything can be sold and bought,
provided the situation allows for it to happen. There was life before
capitalism, I have been told, when this was not the rule. If I am not
wrong, this is all that the sentence pointed to. At the same time,
within that sense you have, as the chicken in the egg, the whole set
of relationships of capitalist formations.

I guess it is very difficult to realize this.





Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxx