One of the forms of appearance of value of the commodity exchange. It is in the position of “the commodity in which its value is expressed” in the same expression of value, constitutes the other pole in opposition to the pole of the equivalent form. The equivalent form and the relative form of value are two moments which belong together, mutually condition each other, and cannot be separated; but, at the same time, they are mutually exclusive or opposite extremes. “The antagonism between the relative form of value and the equivalent form, the two poles of the value form, is developed concurrently with that form itself.”…
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