How Virno differs from Marx over the Fragment

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Virno

[anonymous]

I also think Virno is on the wrong track regarding the implications of the 'general intellect' for Marx's concept of value. He seems to imply that the growing importance of knowledge in production eradicates "the commensurability of products, labours and subjects" via price. But for Marx, the problem of value was always how it commensurates the incommensurable: labour is so heterogeneous, takes on so many qualitative forms, so how do the qualitatively different products relate to one another and become reflected in certain quantities of the universal equivalent, money