Based on the commonplace understandings of the terms, the organic composition would seem to merely be the “correct” version of the value composition: the value composition that we’d compute based solely on knowledge of the technical composition and the values of its component parts.

But of course, that’s the thing: “the values of its component parts” isn’t a well‐defined notion in the absence of further clarification. Are those current values on the market, or values qua advanced capital?

This commentary has been extracted from: “Labour” is itself a recent & ephemeral historical artefact.

Defining the notion of service is notoriously difficult. This is my brief attempt at systematising it in an historically‐specific and thus useful way, incidentally critiquing Endnotes (especially [End10]) along the way.

“Labour” by its very nature is unfree, inhuman, antisocial activity

[T]he labor‐time socially necessary to make products forcefully asserts itself as a regulative law of nature […] just as the law of gravity does when someone’s house falls on his head.