Chai-on asked in [OPE-L:5240]:
> Where is the phrase "external to production" from?
The phrase "external to actual production" appeared in the passage cited
in [5223], excerpted below:
> [...] As long as the *social*
> character of labour appears as the *money-existence* of commodities, and
> thus a *thing* external to actual production, money crises -- independent
> of or as an intensification of actual crises -- are inevitable.
> [...] (V3, International ed., pp. 516-517
The above is translated in the Penguin ed. (p. 649) as follows:
" As long as the *social* character of labour appears as the *monetary
existence* of the commodity and hence as a *thing* outside actual
production, monetary crises, independent of real crises or as an
intensification of them, are unavoidable."
In solidarity, Jerry