Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/202/en

From agriculture come products, preeminently foodstuffs, for which every human being has daily need. They enter the market in a value-relationship with industrial goods — that is, goods produced through division of labor — a relationship that comes to expression in price. The price of the industrial product is subject, with advancing division of labor, to cheapening. Where the price of agricultural products is already incalculable owing to fluctuating environmental conditions, pest calamities, and the like, the whole process of price formation remains altogether in the dark. For the productive endowment — the generative power — of each individual farm organism is different from every other. Without a price equalization within the framework of economically associative groupings, in which "the value of the commodity is determined by its mutual relationship,"¹² each farm would then have to carry its own market prices. In practice, this is approximated in the CSA movement.¹³