ABSTRACT
Capital appropriates intrinsic value and transforms it into its own version of value, the commodity or capitalist value, while fetishizing it. It is an invitation to engage in a new and hopefully productive dialogue on how to address the challenges of understanding the intricate relationship between value and capital. Marx's distinctions between abstract and concrete labor, use-value, and exchange-value, enabled him to expose certain erroneous assumptions of bourgeois political economy. Typically, most individuals engage in activities that enhance their lives and those of others, creating true value. Political revolutions aiming to take control of the train are becoming increasingly necessary. Life resists the effects of entropy by organizing itself in diverse commons-based forms of social and ecological cooperation. Just as life harnesses the power of entropy to create, regenerate, and sustain itself, capital embodies the inverse force, constantly expropriating and eroding the foundations of life in its endless and aggressive quest for profit and growth.
