money-form

Here, however, a task is set us, the performance of which has yet even been attempted by bourgeois economy, the task of tracing the genesis of this money-form, of developing the expression of value implied in the value-relation of commodities, from its simplest, almost imperceptible outline, to the dazzling money-form.

skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 3 skzbrust 2010

Here, however, a task is set us, the performance of which has yet even been attempted by bourgeois economy, the task of tracing the genesis of this money-form, of developing the expression of value implied in the value-relation of commodities, from its simplest, almost imperceptible outline, to the dazzling money-form.

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010

In this fashion commodities express by their prices how much they are worth, and money serves as _money of account_ whenever it is a question of fixing the value of an article in its money-form.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

Treason is treason -- and there's more than one form of it; the money-form is but one of them.

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) Mark Twain 1872

Treason is treason -- and there's more than one form of it; the money-form is but one of them.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

Marx then reiterates that social actors find the money-form ready to hand, as a given aspect of their social environment - and that its existence enables them to relate to one another in the process of production "in a purely atomistic way" (187).

Roughtheory.org 2009

Marx then recapitulates the argument about the commodity fetish, as it manifests in relation to the money-form: the particular inversion that causes the money commodity to appear to have certain properties independently of its imbrication in a particular kind of social relation, such that the social relation appears to arise on the foundation provided by "a social property inherent in its nature" as a material object.

Roughtheory.org 2009

In the same proportion as exchange bursts its local bonds, and the value of commodities accordingly expands more and more into the material embodiment of human labour as such, in that proportion does the money-form become transferred to commodities which are by nature fitted to perform the social function of a universal equivalent.

Roughtheory.org 2009

I am not saying that we declare war on the money-form, or that we discontinue giving money to the poor.

Insurgent American 2009