From: Andrew Brown (A.Brown@LUBS.LEEDS.AC.UK)
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 11:55:26 EDT
Hi Rakesh, You write as if embodiment and congealment are the same thing. ["If this is true, value cannot be the labor actually expended or embodied or congealed in the production of the commodity."] I can see what you are getting at but I'd want to say that if you follow through the logic that the labour is 'congealed' (rather than embodied) then this same logic tells us that this is 'purely social labour' (all individuality has been abstracted from along with all natural materiality) and hence we can anticipate that it isn't fixed individually but socially and changes accordingly. To the extent that it is congealed, it is social, it is a *peculiar* social substance, unlike natural substances in respect of its being changed socially (amongst other things). Andy
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