karl marx commodity

Question about Karl Max….Why does he say….?
Why does Marx say : the “commodity form of the product of labor” or the “value form of the commodity” are the economic cell form? Explain what each of these two forms is and how they are related.
From Marx’s Capital
While I am not a Marxist by a long shot, I doubt you will get an intelligent discussion on this issue here. There are too many childish, anti-intellectual Republican rednecks on this board.
THE DALI LAMA, BARBIE and COMMODITY FETISHISM
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