04-16-2021, 05:10 PM
(04-16-2021, 02:42 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(04-13-2021, 07:39 PM)Einzige Wrote: Money cannot represent value, at least not directly. It can at bet represent the exchange-value of a commodity. But it certainly cannot represent all aspects of value, use and exchange, directly.Money represents value and will always represent value. I don't see that changing as long as mankind and civilization exists. However, money itself is not personal and doesn't have a mind of its own or the ability to decide who it prefers to be with either. Money is money. We all know whaIt it is and its purpose. So, if a hundred bill was laying on the street, would you pick it up or leave it for the next person to pick it up? Me, I'd pick it up if no one else was around at the time. I wouldn't fight for it or argue over it because I don't need another one that bad.
One of the points of Marxism is that Capital does actually have a mind of its own- that it flows according to natural laws and has requirements that can cut against the interests even of its owners. It is a social abstraction which is almost alive.