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War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.
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― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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Commodities are the embodiment of socially necessary labour time. But
labour time as such is not expressed directly, as it is in the society
envisaged by Rodbertus, in which the central authority establishes the
unit of labour time which it will accept as valid for each commodity.
Labour time is expressed only in the exchange commensurability of two
articles. Thus the value of an article, i.e., its average time of
production, is not expressed directly as eight, ten or twelve hours, but
as a spec
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― Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
― Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
