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The Universal and the Particular in the Constitution of Value

In: The Myth of Dialectics

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  • John Rosenthal

    (Colorado College)

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Recall Marx’s observation from ‘The Value-form’: ‘This inversion, whereby the sensate-concrete counts only as the form of appearance of the abstract-universal, and not, on the contrary, the abstract-universal as a property of the concrete, characterizes the value-expression.’ In order to begin to grasp how the dealist connotation of Hegelian formulae gets expelled through their usage by Marx, we have only to pay attention to the manner in which Marx’s ‘mode of expression’ here in fact departs from Hegel’s. For the topic of Marx’s claim is explicitly not the sensate-concrete as such, but only the latter inasmuch as brought ‘within the value-relation’. Now, what Marx calls the ‘value-relation’ is, in effect, just the ratio at which different categories of marketable goods exchange: so many units of one good being regularly obtainable for so many units of another.

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  • John Rosenthal, 1998. "The Universal and the Particular in the Constitution of Value," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Myth of Dialectics, chapter 14, pages 163-171, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37184-2_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230371842_14
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