• IceWallowCum [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    like ‘a commodity is a use-value’ or ‘a commodity is an exchange-value’

    How are those contradictory? Or what other things do they contradict?

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Those statements do not contradict each other directly, but it’s very clear that a commodity is not its own use-value, nor is a commodity its own exchange-value. Use-value is very clearly meant to be the property of a commodity to satisfy a need, and exchange-value is meant to be a property of a commodity to be exchanged for something in a given context. That obviously makes use-value and exchange-value in the latter senses not synonymous with the term ‘commodity’, nor with each other.