/lit/ - Literature

>>13728643
Marx's Capital is a CRITIQUE of political economy. The fact that his contribution to the discipline was virtually zero means about as much as the fact that Lavoisier's contribution to alchemy was virtually zero. So while technically true, the actual meaning is diametrically opposed to what the author thinks it is.

>>13728752
Marketing and advertising are not needed to sell the shirt as a commodity, so they don't come into its value. Transportation from the point of production to the point of sale is just as much labour as the labour of making the shirt.
And besides, you can't "calculate" value directly. The only form of appearance of value is price, so the only thing your calculations can be based on are prices.

>>13728845
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ch03.htm
>By what is the price of a commodity determined?
>By the competition between buyers and sellers, by the relation of the demand to the supply, of the call to the offer.
If he's so useless then why are you repeating what he said 150 years ago?