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Re: [OPE-L] Capital in General

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Title: Re: [OPE-L] Capital in General

Hi Rakesh,

 

You wrote:

“But use value is not a social relation per se; it is a relation between user and thing.”

 

There are of course many disanalogies between use-value and value. I have no reason to disagree with what you say about use-value. My point related to one aspect only, viz. what we mean when we say ‘realised’. And here there is a similarity between use-value and value. Both are ‘realised’ after the commodity is produced: use-value in consumption, value in sale. In both cases it is very easy to misinterpret of the term ‘realised’. It is a misinterpretation to consider that use-value does not exist before it is realised, and to think that value does not exist before it is realised. What does not exist in each case is the actualisation of the respective powers involved.

 

Many thanks

 

Andy

 

 

 

       

 

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