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Value-form

In Karl Marx's critique of political economy, the value-form is the social form that wealth takes in a society where commodity exchange is the dominant mode of production. Marx's analysis of the value-form, primarily in the first chapter of Capital, Volume I, argues that the value of commodities is not an intrinsic or natural property but a historically…

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related to Works cited · 58
Value-form → Alexander, An Introduction, Arthur, Athar, Banaji, Brill, Capital, Capitalism, Commodity, CSE Books, Dialectic, Diane, Elson, Essays, From, Geoffrey, Hegel's Dialectic, Heinrich, How, Hussain
related to Philosophical foundations · 16
Value-form → Capital, Conventional, Essence, Following Hegel's, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's, Hegel, Hegel's, Immanuel Kant, Marx, Marx's, Michael Heinrich, They, This, Value, Verstand, Wesen
related to Context: Critique of classical political economy · 15
Value-form → Adam Smith, As Marx, Capital, Critique, David Ricardo, For Marx, In, Marx, Marx's, Marx’s, Political Economy, The, They, This, While Ricardo's
related to Dialectic of the value-form in Capital · 11
Value-form → Adolph Wagner, Capital, Chapter One, Exchange-Value, In, In Section, Marx, Notes, Recognizing, The, The Value-Form
related to The logic of the concrete · 11
Value-form → Although, An, Even, If, In, Marx's, Reflexivity, Symmetry, The, Transitivity, Value
related to Polarity and antagonism · 9
Value-form → As Marx, C-M, If, M-C, Marx, Marx's, Recognizing, The, This
related to Fetish character · 6
Value-form → As Marx, Because, Gegenständlichkeit, Marx's, The, This
related to Interpretive debates · 6
Value-form → Different, Marx's, Modern, Ricardian Marxism, These, This
is a · 4
Value-form → basis for Marx's theory of commodity fetishism, cornerstone of his critique of classical economics, social form that wealth takes in a society where commodity exchange is the dominant mode of production, symptom of its confinement within the

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Value-formrelated to Context: Critique of classical political economyAdam Smith0.60section
Value-formrelated to Context: Critique of classical political economyDavid Ricardo0.60section
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Value-formrelated to Context: Critique of classical political economyCapital0.60section
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Value-formrelated to Context: Critique of classical political economyPolitical Economy0.60section
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