The commodity is first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind. The nature of these needs, whether they arise, for example, from the stomach, or the imagination, makes no difference. Nor does it matter here how the thing satisfies man's need, whether directly as a means of subsistence, i.e. an object of consumption, or indirectly as a means of production.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The commodity is first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind. The nature of these needs, whether they arise, for example, from the stomach, or the imagination, makes no difference. Nor does it matter here how the thing satisfies man's need, whether directly as a means of subsistence, i.e. an object of consumption, or indirectly as a means of production." in the context of "Karl Marx, Das Kapital (Buch I) (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy) (1867), Volume I, Ch. 1, Section 1, pg. 41." to mean that wisdom is timeless.