City of crisis (Preface)

Abstract

ion from their use-values(...)If we make abstraction from its use-value, we abstract also from the material constituents and forms which make it a use value. It is no longer a table, a house, (...) or any other useful thing. All its sensuous characteristics are extinguished. (...) With the disappearance of the useful character of the products of labour, the useful character of the kinds of labour embodied in them also disappears; this in turn entails the disappearance of the dif ferent concrete forms of labour. They can no longer be distinguished, but are “The r ight to the city” in Athens during a cr isis era 193 all together reduced to the same kind of labour, human labour in the abstract.”