The Pricing of Commodities

Thomas T Sekine
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Thomas T Sekine: Aichi Gakuin University

Chapter 2 in An Outline of the Dialectic of Capital, 1997, pp 25-49 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract An outstanding feature of capitalist society consists of the transformation of social relations between human beings into “social” relations between things. This tendency towards the reification, or impersonalisation, of human relations follows from the fact that, in capitalist society, all goods (or use-values) tend to be produced as commodities. I say “all goods” but not “all goods and services”. For services are not usevalues and cannot be capitalistically produced as commodities. Nor can they be reified or made wholly impersonal.

Keywords: Social Significance; Capitalist Society; Social Utility; General Equivalent; Definite Quantity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230372207_2

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