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The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an 'immense collection of commodities'; the individual commodity appears as its elementary form
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Use-value of a commodity is the aspect of a thing that satisfies human needs.
It makes no difference what the nature of the need is or how the commodity satisfies it.
A thing can also be useful in more than one way, depending on what is known about it.
Use-values constitute the material content of wealth.
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Exchange-value appears as the proportion in which a use-value of one kind is exchanged for a use-value of another kind, e.g. a certain quantity of wheat for a certain quantity of iron.
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