Dialectics of Product and Dualism of Labor Value
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article develops an approach to the nature of dual labor value: it is the value of production (cost) and the value of consumption (result). The approach is based on the fact that the value is designed to quantify the product, which is dual already at the stage of quality as a process of production and consumption. If the quality of the product is dual, then its quantification cannot but be dual, i.e. the value of production and consumption. The dual nature of value is considered for the cases of nomenclature and commodity economy. In both cases, the value of consumption (result) is formed in the process of "consumer production", in the process of production of man's labor power. There is a transition of the use value of consumer goods into the value of the labor force produced in the process of consumer production. Means of production also have the value of production (costs) and the value of consumption (result). The value of the result of the means of production is revealed in the course of their productive consumption as savings of labor power. The article shows that the transition of use value into value is an embryonic form of the dialectics of productive forces and production relations and does not contradict the fact that labor is the substance of value.
Author: Miropolsky, D.Yu.
Institution: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6949719148
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