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c b wrote:
> CB: And virtual gaming has use-value for them, it fulfills a want;
> that the want springs from fancy, makes no difference.
>
> "A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing
> that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another.
> The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the
> stomach or from fancy, makes no difference.[2] Neither are we here
> concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether
> directly as means of subsistence, or indirectly as means of
> production. "
I don't think:
"[T]he nature of such wants... makes no difference" in understanding the function of the commodity within the capitalist mode of production.
entails:
"[T]he nature of such wants... makes no difference."
^^^^^^^ CB: I don't know if I'm missing a subtlety,but I'm thinking fancy wants can be the basis for a use-value. So, internet gaming can have use-value and be a commodity ?
or
And virtual gaming has use-value for them, it fulfills a want;
> that the want springs from fancy, makes no difference or does not prevent virtual gaming from having use-value in the sense that a commodity must have use-value to be a commodity.