Discussion in the Matrix reading group (see this post for instructions on how to join) Saturday/Sunday of week 4, and anyone who’d rather discuss the text here can do so instead (a few questions will be posted here as well)

If anyone wants a reminder on the weekend for this and/or future discussions, mention it in the comments

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      8 个月前

      That’s pretty much my interpretation, too. The fact that exchange happens so frequently and is part of everyone’s daily lives, combined with the money form obscuring the underlying exchange of commodities, means that people end up treating it somewhat like a law of physics. People live with gravity without knowing what causes it; similarly, they don’t know why a commodity is exchangeable for a certain amount of money and vice versa (beyond what’s taught by bourgeois economists like supply and demand)