[OPE-L:2159] Re: Chapter 5 and before

Michael Williams (100417.2625@compuserve.com)
Fri, 10 May 1996 18:19:11 -0700

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Andrew writes:

their [commodities'] commonality is
not created, determined, or whatever IN in act of exchange, but rather
the reverse. The act of excahnge depends on and presupposes their
commonality

Michael W. asks:

Could this (for you, although not for Marx) include the possibility that
commodities' commonality consists only in their location in a persistent
systematic and systemic structure of commodity exchanges?

Andrew:

Now [under cmp] they are commodities already in the process of production,
since
they are produced as commodities.

Michael:

Could this not be only because capitalist production involves speculative
precommensuration, in the expectation of producing usccessful commodities
(which, of course, is faciltated by the systemic 'commonality' suggested above)?

Michael