Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/81/en

The production process ends with the generation of the commodity, into which the founding idea of the inventor and the knowledge and capacities of many people — today in a worldwide division of labour — have entered. The labour directed by capital, which is the congealed idea, has materialized in the end product and conferred upon it a value that receives a price in the exchange of values on the market. If one takes the value-forming factors into account — ultimately it is idea-guided labour — the price is not calculable. Its emergence is subject to imponderables and distortions, whose cause lies in particular in the fact that land, capital, and human labour are regarded as tradeable commodities and thereby taken up as

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