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(1990) Marxian economics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Taken by itself, a sharp stone is simply a relic of some ancient and inexorable geological process. But appropriated as a cutting instrument, it is a tool or, in a somewhat more murderous vein, a weapon. As a stone, it is a natural object. But as a tool or weapon, it is an eminently social object whose natural form is merely the carrier of the social relations which, so to speak, happen to have seized upon it.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20572-1_11
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Shaikh, A. (1990)., Capital as a social relation, in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate & P. Newman (eds.), Marxian economics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 72-78.