Capital is money capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring or at the least lays golden eggs.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities they find their soul in their automobile hi-fi set split-level home kitchen equipment.
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
Every wise just and mild government by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure will always abound most in people as well as in commodities and riches.
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed and how he will dispose of its products.
The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.
Today there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.
Gold and silver like other commodities have an intrinsic value which is not arbitrary but is dependent on their scarcity the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities so the social process requires standardization of man and this standardization is called equality.