...buyer and seller of a commodity, say of labor-power, are constrained only by their own free will. They contract as free agents, and the agreement they come...their common will. Equality, because each enters into relations with the other, as with a simple owner of commodities, and they exchange equivalent for equivalent....

...only by their own free will. . . . Equality, because each enters into relation with the other . . . and they exchange equivalent for equivalent. Property,...own. And Bentham, because each looks only to himself. . . . Each looks to himself only, and no one troubles himself about the rest, and just because they...

...sanctions (although this may happen during a strike). Instead, the employer and the employee seem to "contract as free agents, and the agreement they come...in which they give legal expression to their common will."27 Beneath the appearance of freedom, however, lies the reality that, because the capitalist...

...insists that the market place, where the buying and selling of labour-power goes on, is a realm of equality, 'because each enters into relation with...commodities, and they exchange equivalent for equivalent' (Marx, 1967, p. 1 76). The labour market does treat capitalist and worker as equals insofar as they...

...constrained only by their own free will. They contract as free agents . . . Equality, because . . . they exchange equivalent for equivalent. Property, because each disposes only of what is his own. . . . The only force that brings them together ... is the selfishness, the gain and the private interests...

...and Bentham. Freedom, because both buyer and seller ... are constrained only by their free will. They contract as free agents, and the agreement they come...own and Bentham, because each looks only to himself. ' 4 The talk of freedom, equality and property here is not a lie. The ideological obfuscation in this...

...perspective of capital is simply a contract between free agents, in which "the agreement [the parties] come to is but the form in which they give legal expression of their common will." It is a relation of equality, because each enters into relation with the other,...

...come to is but the form in which they give legal expression of their common will." It is a relation of equality, because each enters into relation with the...commodities, and they exchange equivalent for equivalent. . . . The only force that brings them together and puts them in relation with each other, is the selfishness,...

...buyer and seller of a commodity, say of labour-power, are constrained only by their own free will. They contract as free agents, and the agreement they come...commodities, and they exchange equivalent for equivalent." Capital I, p. 172. 7. "Commodities and money are transformed into capital because the worker has ceased...

...because both buyer and seller of a commodity, say of labour-power, are constrained only by their own free will . . . Equality, because each enters into relation...own. And Bentham, because each looks only to himself. On leaving this sphere of simple circulation or of exchange of commodifies ... we think we can perceive...