Marx’s core concepts of class and exchange-value trace to Aristotle.

Evidence

And this is not the only evidence that Marx had been substantially influenced by Aristotle. As much as on his own immediate predecessors (Kant, Hegel, etc.), Marx also had drawn on Aristotle for his notions of class and class conflict, the latter most frequently signified by ancient Greek writers as stasis. Moreover, in Capital, Marx had acknowledged the genius of Aristotle, whose discussion of use-value and exchange-value in the Politics had predated by one and three-quarters millenia any economic system which Marx was willing to acknowledge as capitalist. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 82

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how deeply did Aristotle shape Marx’s categories beyond exchange-value and class? The claim that stasis underlies class conflict is an etymological genealogy worth verifying.
• XREF: connects to: Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves; Marx reproduced Aristotle’s theoretical marginalization of slaves. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 82; Marx repurposed Aristotle’s mere-life distinction as a liberation premise. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 475 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves; Marx reproduced Aristotle’s theoretical marginalization of slaves. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 82; Marx repurposed Aristotle’s mere-life distinction as a liberation premise. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 475 (+1 more)