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Section 1: The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (The Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value)
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities," [Footnote 1] its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity.