Examples of using Use-values in English and their translations into German
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Use-values and exchange-value expanded in tandem.
Marx has not therefore“overlooked” the part of Nature in the production of use-values.
All commodities are non-use-values for their owners, and use-values for their non-owners.
So far, therefore, they do not confront each other as commodities, but only as products or use-values.
To the producer of commodities the production of use-values is only a means to the end of the production of commodity values.
If follows from this that one and the same commodity can be expressed in the most different use-values.
It is concerned only with use-values, that is to say the utility of the product and the time necessary for its manufacture.
In order to produce the latter," that is commodities,"he must not only produce use-values, but use-values for others.
On the other hand, the quantity of use-values produced in a definite period increases or decreases with the productivity of labour.
I sell a commodity, which is a non-use-value for me, in order to be able to obtain others which represent use-values for me.
Use-values grow exponentially through technification, a process in which living labor is subtracted, replaced by technology.
That is what they have in common and what exchange- and use-values are bearers of is that quality of being products of human labour.
As we have already seen in the first part, the commodity-producing labour has two sides;it is a creator of use-values and of commodity-values.
Furthermore, just not simply use-values for the lord, as a serf would do, but use-values which are going to go to others through the market.
In order to produce the latter, he must not only produce use-values, but use-values for others, social use-values.
The fact that the production of use-values, or goods, is carried on under the control of a capitalist and on his behalf, does not alter the general character of that production.
Accumulation requires that a portion of the value created takes the form of use-values specifically designed for the enjoyment of the rich.
As use-values, commodities differ above all in quality, while as exchange-values they can only differ in quantity," that is: how much of this exchanges for how much of that.
Now he seems to dismiss andabstract from use-value earlier on.'I'm not concerned with use-values, I'm not interested in them, etcetera.
For money is precisely that form, in which the distinctions of commodities as use-values are concealed, and with them the distinctions of the industrial capital consisting of these commodities and their conditions of production.
The reduced surplus-value of 100 would represent merely two-thirds of the product which it did previously,only 66 2/3% of the mass of use-values, which were formerly represented by 100.
As the use-values, coat and linen, are combinations of special productive activities with cloth and yarn, while the values, coat and linen, are, on the other hand, mere homogeneous congelations of indifferentiated labour, so the labour embodied in these latter values does not count by virtue of its productive relation to cloth and yarn, but only as being expenditure of human labour-power.
In the circuit Corn-Money-Coat, corn disappears from circulation after the first metamorphosis Corn-Money,but various use-values return to the seller of corn: Money-Coat.
The capitalist buys the labor-power before it enters into the process of production, but does not pay for it except at stipulated terms,after it has been expended in the production of use-values.
Consequently the production process of commodity productionis at the same time the process of the production of use-values and commodity-values; it is a combination of the labour-process and of the value-forming process.
The attempt to abolish accumulation in its present form, i.e. that of capital,does not necessarily mean rejection of the social accumulation of use-values, or material'wealth.
The expansion of exchange-value is in trouble andit is the expansion of the capacity to produce use-values that dug the hole from which it can't get out without causing massive destruction.
The simple circulation of commodities-selling in order to buy-is a means for carrying out a purpose unconnected with circulation, namely,the appropriation of use-values, the satisfaction of wants.
The less products assume the character of commodities, and the less exchange-value seizes the whole breadth and depth of production, the more does money appear as real wealth, that, is,as wealth in general compared to its limited existence in use-values.
It is labor-power which has served twice; first, as a commodity in the sale of labor-power(in stipulating the amount of wages to be paid, the money serves merely as an ideal measure of value and need not even be in the hands of the capitalist); secondly, in the process of production, in which it serves as capital, in other words,as an element in the hands of the capitalist creating exchange-value and use-values.