A Fortuitous Theoretical Isomorphism

John Rosenthal
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Chapter 11 in The Myth of Dialectics, 1998, pp 139-148 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘Money’, Marx writes, ‘is God among commodities’ (Gr., 221/148). This is to say that money is nothing other than a real universal: a generality, viz. the common character of all commodities as ‘exchangevalues’, which has acquired independent existence in the form of some determinate commodity or ‘use-value’. It is an ideality ‘realized’ in material shape. More precisely, what is implied by Marx’s comment is that money is the ‘Christ’ of the commodity world. It is ‘objective spirit’: the ‘supra-sensible’ essence of commodities become sensuous nature as itself a commodity, exchange-value become use-value - like God become man, the ‘God-man’ of the Gospels. The universal valuecharacter of commodities is manifest in their similarity to money, ‘just as the sheeplike character of the Christian is manifest in his similarity to the Lamb of God’ (CI, 143/66).

Keywords: Logical Formula; Object Domain; Material Shape; Commodity World; Hegelian Philosophy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230371842_11

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