Components of the art market

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Originally Posted by AlexanderG

According to Marx: "A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another" (Marx, 1867).
However Marx contradicts himself by saying: "... nothing can have value, without being an object of utility. If the thing is useless, so is the labour contained in it; the labour does not count as labour, and therefore creates no value "(Marx, 1867).

That recall from Chagall's autobiography: "- Just do not ask - I warned Lunacharskogo - why I have all blue or green, why the cow stomach shines a calf, etc. Let your Marx, if he is so smart, rise and all will tell you .»

[AlexanderG]

Nu ia ze uze govoril,, ne smeshivaiutsia oni