HOLY CLOTHES There was once a philosopher born in Trier, of Jewish, indeed rabbinic, ancestry: Karl Marx. He was baptised as a child, at the age of six, and as an adult he rarely showed much warmth toward his Jewish origins.¹ And yet he had an intuition: that the value of a commodity corresponds to the amount of time it takes to produce it. Economists, of course, will point out that prices and value are shaped by many factors, scarcity and demand, bargaining power, risk, a
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