In the Grundrisse, Marx argues that equality and freedom key features of the modern individual emerge only given the conditions of production and exchange characteristic of capitalism. See, for example, p.176: Thus, if the economic form, exchange, in every respect posits the equality of the subjects, the content, the material, both individual and objective, which impels them to exchange, posits freedom. Hence equality and freedom are not only respected in exchange which is based on exchange values, but the exchange of exchange values is the real productive basis of all equality and freedom. As pure ideas, equality and freedom are merely idealized expressions of this exchange; developed in juridical, political and social relations, they are merely this basis at a higher level. For this Canvas prompt, track some (or all!) of Marxs argumentative logic in arriving at this claim. How, according to Marx, does capital a particular, historically-derived mode of production give rise to the juridical concept of the person, the (free and equal) liberal subject?
