To distinguish between real productive value and the mere apparent value produced by scarcity is to provide an account of what will make a society thrive. Problems immediately arise, however, in this radically concrete theory of value, since it is ultimately circular: “The body that labours is valuable insofar as its commodity can almost immediately be turned back into not just a body but another valuable body, that is, another body producing food. In other words, the value of bodies is notabsolute but is rather based on their ability to create a commodity whose value is only defined by relationship to its ability to replenish the body”. Such a theory of value ultimately leaves nothing at the basis of the economy except the circulation between valuable bodies.