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Capital in General.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.
COMMODITIES.
At first sight the wealth of society under the capitalist system presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities, its unit being a single commodity. But every commodity has a twofold aspect, that of use value and exchange value.[1]
A commodity is first of all, in the language of English
- ↑ Aristotle, d. Rep. L. l, c. 9 (edit. I Bekkeri Oxonii, 1837):
- ἑκάστου γὰρ κτήματος διττὴ ἡ χρῆσίς ἐστιν…ἡ μὲν οἰκεία, ἡ δ᾽ οὐκ οἰκεία τοῦ πράγματος, οἷον ὑποδήματος ἥ τε ὑπόδεσις καὶ ἡ μεταβλητική. Άμφότεραι γὰρ ὑποδήματος χρήσεις: καὶ γὰρ ὁ ἀλλαττόμενος τῷ δεομένῳ ὑποδήματος ἀντὶ νομίσματος ἢ τροφῆς χρῆται τῷ ὑποδήματι ᾗ ὑπόδημα, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ τὴν οἰκείαν χρῆσιν: οὐ γὰρ ἀλλαγῆς ἕνεκεν γέγονεν. Τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον ἔχει καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων κτημάτων."