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[Mike Ballard]

boddhisatva wrote:

  "The hierarchy of use value" makes no sense as a phrase. If you mean,
use-value's role in the hierarchy of productive social relations, I
think it's co-equal with labor value and will always be.
   
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  While every commodity, exchange-value has to have a use-value, not every use-value has to have an exchange-value i.e. a good or a service doesn't have to take the form of a commodity.  I think Marx saw socialism as system for the production of use-values with the commodity form, exchange-value, stripped off.  The perceived use-value of "labor value" is that by being able to buy labor power for wages, the capitalist can make a profit from the sale of commodities produced by labor.  Use-value is bound up with human perception.  Thus, a BIBLE may be perceived as useful to some, where a bottle of real ale might be perceived as far more useful to others.  The balance of need fulfillment in a socialist society would have to be mediated by some kind of self-managing democractic system of collective consensus, as there would be no State nor any classes to interfere with the political equality of all.    
   
  Best,
  Mike B)
   


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