If I work hard to produce useless things from wood, then would the value of those useless wooden things be still equal to the EL+LL? It seems that the things I have produced have no value at all...
Official response from Richard Wolff
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No, Marx is quite clear that for products of labor to have exchange value (i.e. the socially necessary abstract labor embodied conveyed by the EL+LL formulations) they must be use-values to someone other than their producer. Thus producing something useless means it has no socially necessary abstract labor embodied in it.
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