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Appearance (n.) presents ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠things upside down — a fact familiar in every science except political economy.

Appearance (n.) appears ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in imaginary expressions that arise from the relations of production themselves, categories for essential relations that often present things upside down.

Appearance (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its forms reproduces itself directly and spontaneously as current modes of thought, while the essential relation must first be discovered by science.

Appearance (n.) estranged ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from their inner connection, absurd in isolation, are where practical people feel as much at home as a fish in water; a complete contradiction holds nothing mysterious for them.

Appearance (n.) contradicts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the law: a cotton spinner with little variable capital pockets no less profit than a baker with much — and many intermediate terms are needed, as algebra needs them to see that 0/0 may be a real magnitude.