Exchange
Labor is the fruit of value according to Marx. This is why he sees the exchange of commodities in a negative light. Labor is a thing that constitutes social worth along with producing something to satisfy a want.
Capitalism is a practice where people use their labor to package up social part of labor and exchange it with others as if it didn't matter. The price on a product is just a false image of what value is.
Commerce also makes people who trade commodities as impersonal as the value of the commodity itself. They are just someone who holds on to abstract values to part with them in order to get an abstract value from someone else.
Near the end Marx also introduces how people gravitate towards money as a commodity itself. In a sense, being obsessed with an abstraction of an abstraction of the real thing.
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