I have created a set of flashcards for the first part of the third subsection of the third section of chapter one of Marx’s Capital (see https://quizlet.com/ca/1063840516/flash-cards/).
There are also previous flashcards for the earlier section of chapter 1 on that site (as well as on this blog).
Here is a copy of the flashcards:
1. Which one best describes the general form of value: 1. Each commodity expresses its value in a different use value; 2. Each commodity expresses its value in the same use value.
2. Each commodity expresses its value in the same use value.
2. The general form of value differs from the total form of value by expressing the value of every commodity in a(n) expanded/simple form.
simple form
3. The general form of value differs from the total form of value by expressing the value of every commodity in one/many commodities.
one
4. This form of value is general because all commodities express their value in a _________ and _________ form.
simple; common
5. The simple and total or expanded forms of value function mainly to d__________ the value of the commodity from its u____ value.
differentiate; use value
6. The simple form of value historically arose only in conditions of a___________ e_________ and not intentionally within p___________.
accidental exchange; production
7. The total or expanded form of value more adequately expresses the value of a commodity because it d___________ the use value of a commodity from its value by expressing its value in the same/different useful forms–with the different/same value expressing itself in those innumerable forms.
differentiates; different; same
8. The total or expanded form of value arises historically when a particular commodity is exchanged h___________ for many other kinds of commodities.
habitually.
9. The general form of value is a form represents the values of all commodities in just one single commodity set apart or different from all other commodities.
represents; different
10. The general form of value represents the values of all commodities as the same by e________ them all to just _____ commodity, the g_______ equivalent. By this form, commodities are, for the first time, really brought into relation with each other as values, or permitted to a_____ to each other as exchange-values.
equating; one; general; appear
11. The commodities in the general form of value have their values qualitatively expressed in the qualitatively s_____ commodity.
same
12. Equating the value of each specific type of commodity to a general equivalent means that their values are not only d____________ from their own particular use values, but also from the use values of ____ other commodities because all commodities express their value in terms of one and the same equivalent commodity.
distinguished (or differentiated); all
13. By expressing the value of all the commodities in terms of one and the same equivalent commodity, their value is presented as being qualitatively e______through their r_________ to this single, c_________ equivalent.
equal; relation; common
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14. This differentiation of the value of commodities from all other use values arises because, on the one hand, all commodities now equate their v______ to one and the s______ commodity and, on the other, all the other commodities except one are now e_________ from being in the equivalent form and functioning as such.
values; same; excluded
15. In the simple and expanded forms of value, these forms or structures do not involve other commodities in a j______ operation of expressing their values in order for the form to arise.
joint
16. In the simple and expanded forms of value, an another commodity or other commodities play a p_______ role of being expressions of the value of the relative form of value.
passive
17. In the case of the general form of value, for any particular commodity to have the general form of value, all the other commodities (with the exception of the general equivalent) play an a______ role, expressing their value in the same commodity and j________ e_________ themselves from being e____________.
active; jointly excluding; equivalents
18. Given that all commodities now express their value in the same commodity, they now become q______________ comparable.
quantitatively
19. Through the m________ of the general equivalent, it now becomes possible to c__________ consciously the values of commodities.
mediation; compare
20. It is the g_______ r________ form of value,which excludes all commodities except one, which converts one particular commodity into the general or universal equivalent.
general relative
21. The natural form of the universal equivalent r________ embodied abstract labour, and as r_________ it is i__________ convertible into or e_________ with any particular commodity.
represents; representative; immediately; exchangeable
22. The physical or m________ form of the universal equivalent, as r_________ of value, becomes the socially v_______ or perceptible form of the value of all commodities.
material; representative; visible
23. The concrete labour which produces the material form of the universal equivalent acquires a general social form, the social form of e________ of all the different kinds of labour as human labour that is not social labour as they are being performed.
equality
24. The particular product of the concrete and private labour becomes the general f_____ of a_________ of abstract human labour.
form; appearance
25. By having their values represented in the general equivalent, not only the n_______ aspect of value–a_________ from the useful characteristics of concrete labour and its products–but also the p________ aspect of value as the e_______ of human labour without d_________ comes to light or is expressed.
negative; abstracting; positive; expenditure; distinction
26. The s_______ s_______ character of labour that produces commodities is its character as identical or e________ human labour.
specific social; equal
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