Roman Rosdolsky - The Making of Marxs Capital
        Contents
        Author’s Preface
        Translator’s Note
        Acknowledgements
        PART ONE Introduction
            1. The Origins of the Rough Draft
                Notes
            2. The Structure of Marx’s Work
                I. THE ORIGINAL OUTLINE AND ITS CHANGES
                II. WHEN, AND TO WHAT EXTENT, WAS THE FIRST OUTLINE ABANDONED?
                III. PREVIOUS EXPLANATIONS OF THE CHANGE IN THE OUTLINE
                IV. THE METHODOLOGICAL IMPORT OF THE ORIGINAL OUTLINE
                    A. The first three ‘Books’
                    1. Marx on the method and object of political economy
                    2. The ‘trinity formula’ of bourgeois economics
                    3. The three fundamental social classes
                    4. The ‘transition from capital to landed property’ and from ‘landed property to wage-labour’
                    5. The real function of the threefold division
                    B. The /Book on Capital/
                    1. The original subdivision of the ‘/Book on Capital/’
                    2. ‘Capital in general’ and ‘many capitals’
                    3. The structural relation of ‘the Rough Draft’ to ‘Capital’
                    V. THE SCOPE OF AND PROBABLE EXPLANATION FOR THE CHANGE IN THE OUTLINE
                Notes
            /Appendix I/. The Book on Wage-Labour
                1. Themes which were to have been included in the book
                2. Why did Marx abandon the separate ‘/Book on Wage-Labour/’?
                Notes
            /Appendix II/. Methodological Comments on Rosa Luxemburg’s Critique of Marx’s Schemes of Reproduction
                Notes
            3. Karl Marx and the Problem of Use-Value in Political Economy^1
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                Notes
        PART TWO The First Formulation of Marx’s Theory of Money
            Preliminary Note
            4. Critique of the Labour-Money Theory
                Notes
            5. ‘Transition from Value to Money’*
                1. The necessity of the formation of money
                2. The quantitative and the qualitative aspects of the problem of value (the magnitude of value and the form of value)
                3. The formation of money and commodity fetishism
                4. The unfolding of the internal contradictions of the money form
                Notes
            6. The Functions of Money
                A. Money as measure of value
                    1. Preliminary note
                    2. Money as measure of value
                Notes
            7. The Functions of Money
                B. Money as medium of circulation
                Notes
            8 The Functions of Money
                C. ‘Money as money’
                    1. General comments
                    2. Money as hoard
                    3. Money as means of payment
                    4. Money as world money
                    5. Concluding remarks
                Notes
        PART THREE The Section on the Production Process
            9. Introductory Remarks
                Notes
            10. The Law of Appropriation in a Simple Commodity Economy
                Notes
            11. The Transition to Capital
                Notes
            12. Exchange between Capital and Labour-Power
                Notes
            13. Labour Process and Valorisation Process
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            14. Creation of Value and Preservation of Value in the Production Process
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            15. The General Concept and Two Basic Forms of Surplus-Value
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            16. Relative Surplus-Value and Productive Force
                Notes
            17. The Methods of Production of Relative Surplus-Value (/Co-operation, manufacture and machinery/)^1
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            18. ‘Simultaneous Working Days’. The Capitalist Law of Population and the ‘Industrial Reserve Army’ (/Marx/’/s critique of Malthus/)
                Notes
            19. The Reproduction Process and the Inversion of the Law of Appropriation^1
                Notes
            20. Primitive Accumulation and the Accumulation of Capitals
                Notes
            /Appendix/ A Critical Assessment of Marx’s Theory of Wages
                1. Marx’s theory of wages
                2. Marx on the movement of wages
                    A. The general conditions for increases in wages
                    B. The economic cycle and the movement of wages
                3. Marx’s doctrine of relative wages
                4. The industrial reserve army as regulators of wages
                5. The so-called ‘theory of immiseration’
                6. The kernel of truth in the ‘theory of immiseration’
                7. Concluding remark
                Notes
        PART FOUR The Section on the Circulation Process
            Introductory Remark
            Notes
            21. The Transition from the Production Process of Capital to the Circulation Process of Capital. Excursus on the Realisation Problem and the First Scheme of Reproduction
                Notes
            22. Circulation Time and its Influence on the Determination of Value
                Notes
            23. The Turnover of Capital and Turnover Time. The Continuity of Capitalist Production and the Division of Capital into Portions
                Notes
            24. The Characteristic Forms of Fixed and Circulating (Fluid) Capital
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        PART FIVE Capital as Fructiferous. Profit and Interest
            25. The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit. The General Rate of Profit
            27. Fragments on Interest and Credit
                1. The extent to which the original outline envisaged the treatment of these themes
                2. The ‘Rough Draft’ on interest-bearing capital
                3. The category of ‘capital as money’
                4. Critique of Proudhonism
                5. The ‘Rough Draft’ on the role of credit in the capitalist economy
                6. The barriers of the credit system
                Notes
            /Appendix/ On recent criticisms of Marx’s law of the falling rate of profit
                Notes
        PART SIX Conclusion
            28. The Historical Limits of the Law of Value. Marx on the Subject of Socialist Society
                1. Marx on the development of human individuality under capitalism
                2. The role of machinery as the material precondition of socialist society
                3. The withering away of the law of value under socialism
                Notes
            29. The Reification of the Economic Categories and the ‘True Conception of the Process of Social Production’
                Notes
        PART SEVEN Critical Excursus
            30. The Dispute Surrounding Marx’s Schemes of Reproduction
                I. INTRODUCTION
                    1. A note on the formal aspect of the schemes of reproduction in Volume II
                    2. The ‘approximation to reality’ of Marx’s schemes of reproduction/
                    3. The basic presupposition of Marx’s schemes of reproduction
                    4. The schemes of reproduction and the realisation problem
                II. THE DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE ‘NARODNIKS’ AND THE ‘LEGAL’ MARXISTS IN RUSSIA
                    1. Engels’s debate with Danielson
                    2. Bulgakov’s and Tugan-Baranovsky’s interpretation of Marx’s analysis of extended reproduction
                III. LENIN’S THEORY OF REALISATION^76
                IV. HILFERDING’S INTERPRETATION OF MARX’S SCHEMES OF REPRODUCTION
                V. ROSA LUXEMBURG’S CRITIQUE OF MARX’S THEORY OF ACCUMULATION
                    1. The historical and methodological background
                    2. The schemes of reproduction and technical progress
                    3. The neo-Harmonist applications of the schemes
                Conclusion
                Notes
            31. The Problem of Skilled Labour
                I. BÖHM-BAWERK’S CRITIQUE
                II. MARX’S PROBABLE SOLUTION
                Notes
            32. A Note on the Question of ‘False Rationalisation’
                Notes
            33. Joan Robinson’s Critique of Marx
                I. MARX’S THEORY OF VALUE
                    1. Marx as a ‘value fetishist’
                    2. Marx’s ‘rigmarole’
                    3. Marx’s search for a social elixir. The problem of value in a socialist society
                II. MARX’S THEORY OF THE ESSENCE OF CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION AND HIS CONCEPT OF CAPITAL
                III. CONCLUDING REMARKS
                Notes
            34. Neo-Marxist Economics
                I. A SEEMINGLY DOGMATIC CONTROVERSY
                II. ON THE METHOD OF MARX’S ECONOMICS
                III. CONCLUDING REMARK
                Notes
        Bibliography
            Works by Marx and Engels
            Other works cited
        Index