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fails to notice that mental constructs, despite “being part of the real world”[26] do not have to
abide by the strict standards of the real world, there is much leeway and approximations as to the
verity of mental constructs, because, being mental constructs, they are subjective, arbitrary and
artificial fabrications, more or less, privy to the imaginary whims of conceptual-perception.
Subsequently, contrary to TSSI, labor-time is not always the sole determining factor of
value, since, it is a mental construct. As Marx states, price and “ the life of the worker [also]
depends on the whim of the rich and the capitalists”[27], meaning, “in its function as measure of
value, [price]…serves only in an imaginary or ideal capacity”[28], it is an arbitrary, or ideal,
connection subject to debate and discrepancy because price does not follow the parameters of
scientific measurement, namely, those of socially necessary labor-time. The price-system is
something imposed upon things, regardless of labor-time, due to the fact that the price-system is
a system independent of the Marxist value-system. Consequently, it is possible to arbitrarily
compare apples and oranges, but this comparison is arbitrary and an ideal connection. The price-
system is its own independent system just as the Marxist value-system is its own independent
system. The price-system has a different foundation than the Marxist value-system, which obeys
the strict dictates of socially necessary labor-time, while, the Marxist value-system has a
different foundation than the price-system, which obeys, more or less, the vagaries of the
imagination. Hence, how apples and oranges can be arbitrarily and artificially compared.
As Marx describes, at the end of Capital (Volume One), in the United-States in order for
the capitalist mode of production to take root in America, it was argued that “the government set
an artificial price on the virgin soil, a price independent of the law of [value]…a price that
compels the immigrant to work a long-time for wages before he can earn enough money to buy
land”[29]. This artificial price was a matter of power and imagination; and thus, is the product of
a different appraisal system than the Marxist value-system, which is based on labor-time.
Consequently, there are two appraisal systems at work in Marx’s Capital, two evaluation
systems running independently of each other, founded on different, incommensurable premises.
One obeys the strict dictates of socially necessary labor-time, while, the other does not, and is
more or less based on the whims of capitalists, i.e., the power of the imagination. Ultimately,
TSSI does not exonerate Marx of internal-logical-inconsistencies, because there are two,
incommensurable, appraisal systems in Marx’s Capital, each functioning according to different
incommensurable premises in assigning numerical coefficients onto commodities.
Conclusion:
All in all, TSSI is unable to banish the claims that Marx’s analysis and law of value is
riddled with internal-logical-inconsistencies. In fact, TSSI only exacerbates the internal-logical-
inconsistencies of Marx’s Capital in the sense that to ascribe to the TSSI version of Marxism,
requires one to overlook huge discrepancies in Marx’s Capital, namely, all the contradictory
statements and premises, which skew the results and prevent any holistic understanding of
Marx’s analysis and law of value. And may be Marx wanted it this way, due to the fact that
capital, itself, is not a homogenized, internally, consistent system, but a system, itself, riddled
with internal-logical-inconsistencies, i.e., contradictions. At best, if one is honest, scholarly and
true to what Marx stated in Capital, without regressing into ideology, as Kliman has done, the