By Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
This booklet provides an research of the transnational social forces within the making of a brand new ecu socio-economic order that emerged out of the ecu integration method in the course of the Eighties and Nineties. Arguing that the political economic system of eu integration has to be placed in the context of a altering worldwide capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how eu swap is associated with worldwide swap and the way transnational actors mediate those alterations.
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P. 893). 1 K. , p. 6 [present edition, Vol. 29, p. 272]. Commodities 51 human labour, without being a commodity. Whoever directly satisfies his wants with the produce of his own labour, creates, indeed, use values, but not commodities. In order to produce the latter, he must not only produce use values, but use values for others, social use values. //And not only for others, without more. The mediaeval peasant produced quit-rent-corn for his feudal lord and tithe-corn for his parson. But neither the quit-rent-corn nor the tithe-corn became commodities by reason of the fact that they had been produced for others.
In conclusion a few words on Marx's art of quotation, which is so little understood. When they are pure statements of fact or descriptions, the quotations, from the English Blue Books,9 for example, serve of course as simple documentary proof. But this is not so when the theoretical views of other economists are cited. Here the quotation is intended merely to state where, when and by whom an economic idea conceived in the course of development was first clearly enunciated. Here the only consideration is that the economic conception in question must be of some significance to the history of science, that it is the more or less adequate theoretical expression of the economic situation of its time.
21 Commodities, therefore, in which equal quantities of labour are embodied, or which can be produced in the same time, have the same value. The value of one commodity is to the value of any other, as the labour time necessary for the production of the one is to that " "The value of them" (the necessaries of life), "when they are exchanged the one for another, is regulated by the quantity of labour necessarily required, and commonly taken in producing them" (Some Thoughts on the Interest of Money in General, and Particularly in the Publick Funds, &c, London, [p]p.