[lbo-talk] Hillis Miller on de Man, Marx, & the Internet (simple commodity production in actual historical societies

[Charles Brown]

Note in this quote Marx himself uses the distinction "simple" vs "complex".

Charles

"
The
value-form, whose fully developed shape is the money-form, is very
elementary and simple. Nevertheless, the human mind has for more than 2,000
years sought in vain to get to the bottom of it all, whilst on the other
hand, to the successful analysis of much more composite and complex forms,
there has been at least
an approximation ."