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Amerika: How Free Are We Really? Essential Marx Edited by Leon Trotsky

Remember: This is about learning about different governing systems and where they came from. Also, it’s about learning about people who created them.
Commodities
When Marx first defined what qualifies as a commodity, he looked at items in terms of labor hours to create the commodity. That is something of value that a capitalist wants at any price. Of course, then you have the “never enough” syndrome. Case in point: If Kim Kardashian West gets a ring, then her sisters want that same ring. One of them will get the same ring with a large jewel and the other will get a shinner band, then the next will get two of them. Then the pattern repeats. One is never enough, and they completely ignore the slave labor that went into making the ring. 
Marx thought the value of any commodity should be the labor taken to make them. Before the American Revolutionary War, we used gold and silver. Why? Because their value was based on the work to dig for them. The harder you worked the higher the value. This Marx understood very well. In our society of throwaways, we have forgotten the true value of commodities. It’s the hours of near and slave hours we don’t want to think about. During the Great Depression, there was a struggle to get the basic commodities of cars and luxurious coats. We are about to enter a situation equal if not worst than The Great Depression.

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