"If Ricardo had applied his own principle, the amounts of (simple) labour to which the different labour capacities are reducible, then the matter would have been simple."
" Generally, he is concerned straight away with the hours of labour."
" What the capitalist acquires through exchange is labour capacity: this is the exchange value which he pays for."
" Living labour is the use value which this exchange value has for him,
and out of this use value springs the surplus value..."
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" ...and the suspension of exchange as such" ????
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"Because Ricardo
" Generally...is concerned straight away with the hours of labour."and " allows exchange with living labour"
" -- and thus falls straight into the production process --"
it remains an insoluble antinomy in his system
that a certain quantity of living labour does not = the commodity which it creates,
in which it objectifies itself,
although the value of the commodity = to the amount of labour contained in it "
