[PEN-L:28413] Re: The Line

["Karl" <dagda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Melvin P: :Actually, their manifestation as value is fundamental. Value can
and does assume the mode of exchange value, not the other way around.
"Alienation and fetishism" is articulated by Marx as a specific stage in the
development of commodity production, that causes men to see social relations
as relationships between things.

Karl: The phenomenal form of value is exchange value. The form of appearance
of value is exchange value. This has never be in doubt and underlies the
posting to which you responded.

Karl Carlile
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