Doug:
> What if it requires more labor to produce the Granny
> Smiths than the Galas?
Here you fall behind the level of your own insights, to join the ranks of Wolfgang Fritz Haug and other believers in a pre-monetary value theory.
Economy of labor time is *only possible with money*. This was Marx's critique of Proudhon and other anti-semites, who dreamed of a commodity production without money. The value form analysis in chapter one is a demonstration of the *need* for a general equivalent.
In a communist society, by definition, the requirement of more labor to produce the granny smith apple would be irrelevant. Admittedly, we are very far away from such a social arrangement. And I have no idea how to get there.
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