...exchange, which values vary in the ratio of the amount of labor required to produce them (4). Although " A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties." Capital, according to Marx, is surplus value produced by labor and appropriated by money owners, in...

...systematic basis of commodities as exchangevalues. But he at once purged the very thought from his prose: A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. So far as it is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about it, whether we consider it from the...

...Though a commodity may at first sight appear to be "a very trivial thing, and easily understood, ... it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties" (p. 81). No doubt, "so far as it is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about it. ... But,...

...characterization of man as essentially a tool-making animal. THE FETISHISM OF COMMODITIES AND THE SECRET THEREOF A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. So far as it is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about it, whether we consider it from the...

...Analysis of Capitalist Production, vol. I, ed. F. Engels, trans. S. Moore and E. Aveling (1887), pp. 41-55 A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial...reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subdeties and theological niceties. So far as it is a value in use, there is nothing mysterious about...

...the secret thereof," in which he speaks, with justice, of "the mystical character of commodities": "A commodity appears at first sight, a very trivial...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties" (Marx 1970, 76). It is worth quoting a further celebrated and suggestive passage, although it is one...

...for example. The German Ideology. The first chapter of Capital deals with the commodity insofar as it "appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties" (1967a. p. 71). Already the language of appearance and reality, truth and falsity is emerging here,...

...observation of particular importance in any effort to understand the nature of industrial society: "A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties." 46 One could view Marx's efforts in Capital (indeed, in all of his economic works) as aiming toward...

...media whith depitt women as passive bodits for male spettatorship or as narcissistic self-observers. A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial...analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing . . . (Karl Marx, Capical1) In an effort to articulate the historical and social formation of female...

...speak'st with every tongue, To every purpose! — William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 4, Scene 3 A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial...metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. —Karl Marx (1965) Introduction The above passages indicate some of the principal themes of this chapter....