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“Social Form and the ‘Purely Social’: Toward a better Understanding of Value and the Value-Form” wonders what sort of sociality is involved in societies where wealth is produced on a capitalist basis and where wealth takes the social form of the commodity. This question is explored with special reference to what Marx calls the value-form, that is, to his claim that value must be expressed in exchange-value, more particularly, in the (antagonistic) polarized relationship between commodity and money, the universal equivalent.
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Murray, P., Schuler, J. (2017). Social Form and the ‘Purely Social’: On the Kind of Sociality Involved in Value. In: Krier, D., Worrell, M. (eds) The Social Ontology of Capitalism. Political Philosophy and Public Purpose. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59952-0_5
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