Value-form
The value form Karl Marx referred to in his work " Das Kapital" the expression of the values of goods in capitalism. Starting from the double form of the commodity as use-value and exchange value, he studied in the first chapter the development of the form of money. He developed a series of intermediate forms of value, see list of forms of value.
Rosa Luxembourg wrote this:
" The discovered by Marx abstract human labor is in fact in its unfolded form nothing more than -. The money "
Marx analyzed the capitalist mode of production. When given conditions while the social division of labor is required. A commodity has a double form: it is both use-value, on the other hand, exchange value. The exchange value of the social character of private works appear; Marx therefore speaks of a - purely social - " value-objectivity ".
The " Simple, single or accidental form of value " indicates Marx with this formula:
The simple form of value has two mutually supportive, but mutually exclusive poles: a "relative form of value " (the value of commodity A is shown here as a relative value) and the " equivalent form " ( commodity B serves here merely as a means, the value of the express ware). The fact that both poles are mutually exclusive, will say that in the same proportion, one and the same product may not perform both functions simultaneously.
Marx then developed his analysis, while passing on the "total or unfolded form of value " and finally to " the form of money ." This dialectical derivation is not only of fundamental importance for Marx's theory of money. She also heads over to a discussion of the fetish character of the commodity.
Marx calls it a fundamental lack of classical economics, "that it never succeeded, from the analysis of the goods and special ad valorem out the form of the value that just makes him the exchange value ". It was due to her neither a theoretical derivation of the money had been successful yet an understanding of historically and socially contingent nature of the forms of commodities, money and capital.