ANTH 105g Lecture Notes - Barter, Social Relation, Nacirema
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Marx"s project: to make capitalism seem strange to us: open up the possibility of other economic forms, other ways of organizing society. Capitalism : marx gave this term its current meaning. He was interested in how we organize society. Goals and how we live our lives. How we interact with each other (important to marx) How we labor and how we consume. Can be compared to pre-capitalist economic activity: peasant societies, feudal, tribal and socialism. B/c they"re not offered as a product for general sale on the. Use-value market: an item"s value comes from its function, or how people use it. Its qualitative properties: the utility of a thing (i. e. that it is useful) makes it a use-value. (303) Bartering is not capitalism, because prices are not set, they are relative: use-value is brought up more than exchange-value, individuals set prices . In a non-capitalist society, you use commodities to get money, to then buy another commodity: c m c.
