In a message dated 7/22/02 2:24:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


Technical analysis views the corporation as a share price line on a graph.

Commodities to exist socially must establish themselves as exchange values.
This means that it is immaterial as to whether they are cars or rubber
ducks. The essential point is that they are exchange values. This is
alienation and fetishism.



Actually, their manifestation as value is fundamental. Value can and does assume the mode of exchange value, not the other way around. "Alienation and fetishism" is articulated by Marx as a specific stage in the development of commodity production, that causes men to see social relations as relationships between things.

For commodities to exist is not a question of exchange relations but of property relations as the fundementality. Articles are transformed into commodities under specific historic conditions of exchange - not the other way around.  This is the big question but I am confident because the historical literature has been researched and studied for many years.

Exchange and the emergence of commodities are a unity with a fundamentality that makes development possible. Commodities are articles first and undergo a transformation into commodities or exchange values.

Here is the biggie.

Melvin P.

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