Labour-power is the sole commodity whose use-value is the creation of value itself

Evidence

According to Marx, labour, or labour-power, is the only ‘total exclusion of objective wealth’. In Hegelian terms, it is the negation of capital, the ‘real non-capital’ and thus the ‘only use value which can present an opposite and a complement to money as capital’. As a commodity, it gains use-value as a consequence of being consumed to create value. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1356

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines labour-power as the one commodity that opposes capital and creates value through consumption.
• XREF: connects to: Use-value’s definition is circular within value-producing society. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1277; Labor is the commodity whose surplus value is expropriated and realized through market exchange; Labor power only becomes a value through the possibility of exchange. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 258 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Labor power only becomes a value through the possibility of exchange. #expands (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 258
• Labor is the commodity whose surplus value is expropriated and realized through market exchange #expands (0.82)
• Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions #expands (0.72)