[–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

if producer A buys a piece of bread from producer B with 5 gold, and producer B buys a shirt from producer A with 5 gold, then the net result is the same as if producer A and producer B directly traded the products of their labor. But in societies where commodity production is highly developed with a powerful money commodity, the latter rarely occurs and commodities are always sold for money first (translation into the universal exchange-value which money possesses) and then used to buy another commodity. Even though money is always the transient form in the circulation of commodities, there is no other commodity more essential to the process than the money commodity.

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