What people are coincides with what and how they produce

Evidence

To express this with that radicalism of conception which in practice is naturally approached only fragmentarily, all human psychic events and ideal constructions are to be understood as contents and norms of individual life, and just as thoroughly as contents and norms of existence in social interaction, as for Spinoza the cosmic-absolute existence is to be conceived now under the attribute of extension, now (and just as completely) under that of thought—una eademque res, sed duobus modis expressa [“one and the same thing, but expressed in two modes.”] — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213 (#expands, via linked claim)

Through exchange, economic process and economic values emerge simultaneously, because exchange is what sustains or produces the distance between subject and object which transmutes the subjective state of feeling into objective valuation. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250 (#expands, via linked claim)

Reality is not, as Americans are so quick to make it, a form of private property or a matter of taste. It is not the eternal given either, merely awaiting accurate representation in the individual mind once that mind is emptied of history and tradition, or the veil of false consciousness is lifted, or a better technology of communication perfected. Reality is a product of work and action, collective and associated work and action. It is formed and sustained, repaired and trans- formed, worshiped and celebrated in the ordinary business of living. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 386 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Production and exchange form a unity of the diverse, not an identical unity; Reality is produced through collective work and action — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 386; Mode of production means combined relations, not technology or economy alone (+6 more)

Related

• Reality is produced through collective work and action (similarity 0.82)
• Exchange creates value as genuinely as production does. (similarity 0.81)
• The exchange sphere masks exploitative production relations and produces the illusion of isolated individuals (similarity 0.80)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.79)
• Exchange itself, not utility or scarcity, creates economic value. (similarity 0.78)
• Exchange stands as the purest form of human interaction and rationalizes daily life. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213
• Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250
• Reality is produced through collective work and action #expands (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 386
• Material and social reproduction occur simultaneously and inseparably #corroborates (0.65)
• Mode of production means combined relations, not technology or economy alone #expands (0.60)
• Production and exchange form a unity of the diverse, not an identical unity #expands (0.55)
• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #expands (0.55)