[OPE-L:33] [OPE-L:262] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chapter 1

michael@mwilliam.u-net.com
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Ajit:
>
> Once you have money in the relationship, then of course you can say that so
> much of steel and so much of dynamite are equal in value in terms of coal
> (money). But such statements are generally charecterized as "trivial",
> meaning it does not add anything to our knowledge.

Well .. yes, but if so then it is a trivialisation of our real economic
lives that is imposed by capitalist generalised commodity
production - is it not?

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