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Commodity-economic logic does not arise inevitably in the history of human societies. While this logic necessarily prevails to the degree that a society-wide capitalist market dominates economic life, it is a contingent historical development which transforms not only material products but also human labour-power, the ultimate source of productivity, into commodities.
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Bell, J.R. (1995). Dialectics and Economic Theory. In: Albritton, R., Sekine, T.T. (eds) A Japanese Approach to Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23817-0_7
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