From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 03:16:57 EDT
In saying that a commodity embodies labor or represents congealed labor, Marx is merely reminding people who have come to understand social relations as primarily buying and selling commodity relations that in exchanging what may appear as simple inanimate objects they are actually engaged in social labor relations mediated by those things. It's not that Marx had a metaphysical belief in value as a kind of ghost in the thing. People, including Left Hegelians and other critical critics and even Marx himself, are forced to impute ghosts into things--value--because social relations are mediated by those things. rb
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