We have heretofore shown that gold is a purely arbitrary standard which has no scientific relations whatever to the product of labor which it is required to measure, but that it is itself a product, and as such requires to be measured.
Woodhull critiques the arbitrary nature of gold as a standard for measuring labor value.
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