The use values, coat, linen, &c., i.e., the bodies of commodities, are combinations of two elements – matter and labour
twice as much as the linen
As William Petty puts it, labour is its father and the earth its mother
and consequently do not contain an atom of use value
that of being products of labour.
use value and exchange value
as one hundred pounds’ worth of silver or gold.”
The value of a commodity, therefore, varies directly as the quantity, and inversely as the productiveness, of the labour incorporated in it.
All that these things now tell us is, that human labour power has been expended in their production
by its duration, and labour time in its turn finds its standard in weeks, days, and hours
