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prices depend on the politics of class struggle

[...] prices cannot simply be derived and calculated from labour values, but depend on the politics of class struggle. [...]

—p.53 An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory (23) by Christian Fuchs
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money is the mediator between the classes

[...] Capital aims at lowering the price of wage labour (wages) and increasing the price of commodities in order to increase profits. Workers can refuse work in the form of strikes and thereby attack the wage mediation and money profit, and they can refuse or eliminate prices by trying to obtain us…

—p.51 An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory (23) by Christian Fuchs
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value only exists in exchange

[...] Heinrich's basic point is that value does not exist in the individual commodity, but only in exchange, and the all-sided exchange of commodities (in contrast to the exchange of isolated products) exists only as reference of commodities to money" [...] Money is "not simply a formal transla…

—p.41 An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory (23) by Christian Fuchs
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Thanatos

Herbert Marcuse (1955) argues that the performance principle means that Thanatos governs humans and society and that alienation unleashes aggressive dreams within humans

—p.39 An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory (23) by Christian Fuchs
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