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 ===== 2 The commodity =====
-Marx begins his critical exposition in //Capital// and //A contribution to the critique of political economy// with an analysis of the single commodity, more precisely “the commodity form of the product of labour"((MECW 35, p. 8)). As pointed out by Ricardo, products of labour constitute by far the greatest share of all commodities, because “they may be multiplied […] almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.”((David Ricardo, //On the principles
+Marx begins his critical exposition in //Capital// and //A contribution to the critique of political economy// with an analysis of the commodity, more precisely the “individual commodity [...] considered as an average sample of its class”(()) and further “the commodity form of the product of labour”((MECW 35, p. 8)). As pointed out by Ricardo, products of labour constitute by far the greatest share of all commodities, because “they may be multiplied […] almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.”((David Ricardo, //On the principles
-of political economy and taxation// (London 2002 [1821]), p. 6.)) On a higher level, production, exchange and consumption of commodities is the specific way in which social reproduction takes place in the capitalist epoch.((See for example MECW 28 p. 26 and “Notes on Wagner's Lehrbuch der politischen Oekonomie" in MECW 24, pp. 531--559.))
+of political economy and taxation// (London 2002 [1821]), p. 6.)) On a higher level, production, exchange and consumption of commodities is the specific way in which social reproduction takes place in the capitalist epoch.((See for example MECW 28 p. 26 and “Notes on Wagner's Lehrbuch der politischen Oekonomie” in MECW 24, pp. 531--559.))
 ==== 2.1 Use value ====