The Eternal Debate About Value
Over the last few months, I noticed one particular thing: What is value, anyway? And has "value" always existed, or is this category something peculiar to capitalism? And wait, what does all this have to do with commodity production? One question opened my mind to the next, but where are the answers? The Question Of Questions: What Is Value? Many Marxists already fail at this "simple" question, what actually is value in Marxist economic theory? The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,” its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity. -Karl Marx: Capital: Critique Of The Political Economy Is the introductory sentence of Marx's work "Das Kapital" and already contains a lot of explanations about "value", first it is said that only in capitalist societies wealth occurs as an "a...