![]() The capitalistic organization of life operates through this 'appearance' of itself to its bearers. The agents work with them, judge in terms of them, and in a sense measure things with them. The value forms are also 'forms of appearance' (German sing.: Erscheinungsform). No such thought will enter the mind of the toast-maker, who will think directly of the children's needs. when feeding the children, the work of making toast – the same 'useful labor' – is associated differently. Then toast has assumed a value form as a product of capitalistically associated labor. If the breakfast menu of a capitalistic restaurant chain reads: The value-forms are social forms of a product of labor as organized asocially, privately and capitalistically. The price of 20 yards of linen is about $100.About 20 yards linen are worth one coat.(An item with a price tag attached has thereby entered the price form in imagination.) But things can also be said to enter these forms objectively, as when it is simply a fact that e.g. in the reasoning of a weaver who weaves 20 yards of linen with a view to getting a coat, thinking "20 yards of linen are worth one coat" or in a firm's attaching prices to its products (prices that may or may not be accepted). A thing may have a value-form in the imagination – e.g. ![]() Items that enter on one side or the other, here linen, coat and dollar, are said thereby to have different specific value-forms. Worth, price, and equivalent are said to be categories of bourgeois life. The formulae above are 'expressions of value' ( Wertausdruck). 20 yards of linen have an equivalent in one coat.Production and exchange are governed by ideas and facts expressible in the forms like: When social labor is split up into independent enterprises and organized capitalistically, its products take the form of an ensemble of commodities of diverse types, which face one another on the market. ![]() Marx's account of the value-form is differently adopted in later forms of Marxism, in the Frankfurt School and in post-Marxism. The value-form or form of value ( German: Wertform) is a concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy. It has been suggested that Value criticism be merged into this article.
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