Re: nochmal Gebrauchswert | war: [ox] Werthaltigkeit von Informationsg...

• From: "Franz Nahrada" <f.nahrada reflex.at>
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:18:31 +0200

Graham Seaman writes:

It seems to me that perhaps keeping
the distinction between Gebrauchwert and Nuetzlichkeit might be part of
the beginning of one. But the lack of one is a practical problem for
me - when I see people enthusiastic about the development of free
designs which just copy all the features of commercial ones, I would
like to be able to say 'but why don't we create something more genuinely
useful' (?? high nuetzlichkeit, don't care about gebrauchwert??) but have
no way to do this without being both completely moralistic and completely
subjective. Maybe in this case the answer is not to refine abstract terms,
but to work on concrete examples, but it would be better to do both.

Now we are talking business. Lets forget the Marx-Exegesis and really
analyze what is going on in terms of usefulness of products of this
economy.

I think you are right that there is an intrinsic limit to usefulness in a
commodity economy. 

This is indeed the real center of discussion.

We have some elements of the answer like:

- producers are not regularily standardizing their products so they fit
together
- once a product is sold it does not bring any more benefit to the
producer (example of chinese doctors who are paid for health instead of
being paid for sickness)

We should try to write this (long) list of inherent flaws of commodity
economy. These will all center around the deficiencies of "Gebrauchswert"
and will explain it. Eventually we will find out that "Gebrauchswert" is a
single transaction mode rather than a systemic connection mode.

Franz


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