From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 07:35:56 EST
Re Paul C's [7886]: > I am meaning subjectivist in a more technical sense, one in which > the model of the world held by a subject ,be they juridical or personal, > is mistaken for the world. > The sale of goods is the means by which the firm as a subject builds > its internal model of the necessity of its product. But it is the > necessisity of lack of it of the product that determines the sale. > To say the sale or absence thereof determines the necessity is to > mistake the model for the reality. So, under capitalism, only those goods which are "necessary" are sold? I would say that rather than commodities existing in the conception of the bourgeoisie alone (i.e. a model of the world held by a subject), commodities have a social reality under capitalism. The fact that goods (and services) must be sold to fully become commodities and to express value is an aspect of that social reality rather than a mistaken conception of the world. Furthermore social necessity is socially constructed and reconstructed _by economic subjects_. Yes, of course there are limits to which subjects can define and redefine necessity but necessity itself is not only an objective force. This is a reason why there are variations in (social) necessity spatially and temporally. In solidarity, Jerry
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