Examples of using Simple commodity in English and their translations into Greek
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Generating electricity is not the same as producing a simple commodity.
In conditions of a simple commodity economy the average prices of products are proportional to their labor value.
Every ruler at court will hear how I lacked the power to make my own nobles deliver a simple commodity.
Nor does it express a(fictitious)historical stage of'simple commodity production' purportedly antecedent to capitalism.
In a simple commodity economy this will equal the quantity of labour that our producer expends on producing his own product.
This is a theoretical abstraction andnot a picture of the historical transition from simple commodity economy to capitalist economy.
So long as Smith stays within the bounds of simple commodity economy, this conceptual confusion is of little harm, since these two quantities of labour will coincide.
Note that this is a different question from that of whether Marx's analysis in chapter I of Capital refers to capitalist society or to a society of simple commodity production.
We are dealing with a society of commodity producers,with a so-called"simple commodity economy" as opposed to a more complex capitalist economy.
In the simple commodity economy, such an equalization of conditions of production in the various branches means that a determined quantity of labor used up by commodity producers in different spheres of the national economy furnishes each with a product of equal value.
It does not seek to ensure that agriculture is withdrawn from the WTO andthat agricultural food products cease to be treated as a simple commodity, and does not seek to have the Blair House agreement reviewed;
The labor theory of value is a theory of simple commodity economy, not in the sense that it explains the type of economy that preceded the capitalist economy, but in the sense that it describes only one aspect of the capitalist economy, namely production relations among commodity producers which are characteristic for every commodity economy.
But when this“personal plot” is extended beyond measure and is used not for personal needs, but to supply the market,then it is turned into an economy of simple commodity production which,. as Lenin has said, every minute, every hour, and every day, gives birth to capitalism.
Rather than an advance from a non-capitalist earlier stage, orhypothetical simplified model, of simple commodity production to a later stage, or more complex model, of capitalist commodity production, the movement in Capital was to be grasped as a presentation of the capitalist totality from the outset, moving from the abstract to the concrete.
On this view, the progression of the categories of Capital closely follows their actual historical development,such that the first few chapters of Capital are seen to describe a pre-capitalist period of“simple commodity production” when the“law of value” was said to operate in a pure way.
This dominance of a structure, of which Marx gives an example here(the domination of one form of production, e.g.,industrial production over simple commodity production, etc.), cannot be reduced to the primacy of a centre, any more than the relation between the elements and the structure can be reduced to the expressive unity of the essence within its phenomena.
Also, as happened in Western continental Europe, roman law, the first world lawof a commodity-producing society, with its unsurpassably fine elaboration of all the essential legal relations of simple commodity owners(of buyers and sellers, debtors and creditors, contracts, obligations, etc.).
But, also, as happened in Western continental Europe, roman law, the first world law of a commodity-producing society,with its unsurpassably fine elaboration of all the essential legal relations of simple commodity owners(of buyers and sellers, debtors and creditors, contracts, obligations, etc.) can be taken as the foundation.
The material basis for such a society already exists, but all of these components are still activated, controlled and socialised by value, either in the form of capital, orin the earlier form of simple commodities.
The most common historical case is the splitting up of lots and their acquisition by those who directly cultivate them,a portion of whom are transformed into self-employed producers of simple commodities and another portion into capitalists(who employ wage-farm workers on a permanent or seasonal basis).