It is worth recalling at this juncture that M-C-M! is not the formula for
economic circulation as such, but a specific mode of same: that of capitalism. Parallel to this is the oft-elided fact that Marx nowhere claims that the sale of commodities for money is peculiar to capitalism, but rather that particular to capitalism is a changed order of money and commodities,
bound by its own internal dynamic to universalize itself.
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