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The Objectification of Social Relations

In: The Myth of Dialectics

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  • John Rosenthal

    (Colorado College)

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The equality and indifference of the parties to exchange as juridical persons is determined by the formal structure of the exchange relation which brings them into contact. But what makes this contact into the mode of realization of a more comprehensive interdependence of individuals is rather the content of exchange. It is the fact that the given individual acquires through exchange the means of satisfying some part of his or her wants and needs, and does so only insofar as s/he in turn alienates goods required for the satisfaction of the wants and needs of others, that provides commodity exchange, along with the entire set of its formal conditions, its social content.

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  • John Rosenthal, 1998. "The Objectification of Social Relations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Myth of Dialectics, chapter 6, pages 66-85, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37184-2_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230371842_6
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