This book is the first complete commentary on Marx'smanuscriptsof 1861-63, works that guide our understanding of fundamental concepts such as 'surplus-value' and 'production price'.

List of figures

xiii

Editor's introduction

xv

Author's introduction

xxxii

PART I The central Notebooks of `Chapter III': the production process of capital

1

(42)

Money becomes capital: from exteriority to totality

3

(16)

New syllogism: M---C---M

4

(2)

Face-to-face encounter of the owner of money and the owner of labour. Creative exteriority

6

(5)

Exchange. The labour process and the valorization process

11

(4)

The two component parts of capital

15

(4)

Absolute surplus value

19

(8)

Surplus value in general and social classes

19

(3)

Absolute surplus value

22

(1)

The nature of surplus value and the `rate of exploitation'

23

(4)

Relative surplus value

27

(16)

The `essence' of relative surplus value

27

(3)

The general form of subsumption: cooperation

30

(3)

The second mode of subsumption: the social division of `social' labour

33

(3)

The third mode of subsumption: machinery in the factory

36

(7)

PART II Critical confrontation of the system of categories as a whole

43

(96)

Critical confrontation with Steuart and the Physiocrats

49

(7)

The case of Steuart

49

(2)

Confrontation with the Physiocrats

51

(1)

Other minor contradictions

52

(4)

Adam Smith's perplexities

56

(9)

Confusions regarding the exchange of labour for capital

57

(1)

Identification of surplus value and profit

58

(2)

The question of reproduction

60

(5)

Productive labour

65

(17)

Productive labour, capital and commodities

65

(3)

Polemics regarding productive labour

68

(3)

Toward the end of the polemic

71

(6)

Quesnay's Tableau Economique

77

(5)

The theory of rent

82

(22)

Formulation of a theory of rent through a critical confrontation with Rodbertus

83

(4)

Methodological digression

87

(2)

The `Ricardian law of rent' and its history

89

(3)

`Cost price' in Ricardo and Smith

92

(4)

Rent in Ricardo and Smith

96

(4)

The `rent tables'

100

(4)

Surplus value, profit, accumulation and crisis in Ricardo

104

(16)

Surplus value and profit

104

(3)

The rate of profit

107

(4)

Accumulation and reproduction

111

(2)

The `possibility' and the `existence' of crisis

113

(7)

The fetishism of vulgar and apologetic economics

120

(19)

Surplus value in Malthus

120

(4)

The disintegration of the Ricardian school

124

(6)

Critical reactions

130

(4)

The fetishism of revenue: a sort of conclusion of the `theories of surplus value'

134

(5)

PART III New discoveries

139

(44)

Towards `Chapter II' and `Chapter III'

141

(24)

Mercantile capital

141

(7)

Capital and profit: towards `Chapter III'

148

(5)

The reflux of money in capitalist reproduction

153

(2)

End of the `theories of surplus value'

155

(3)

New plans for the future work

158

(7)

New clarifications for `Chapter I'

165

(18)

Relative surplus value: revolution of the `mode of production' or `technological truth'

166

(5)

Relationship among the types of surplus value. Formal and real subsumption. Productive labour and fetishism

171

(3)

Accumulation or the reconversion of surplus value into capital

174

(5)

Critical---historical readings from Petty

179

(4)

PART IV The new transition

183

(52)

The Manuscripts of 1861--63 and the philosophy of liberation

185

(20)

What is `science' for Marx?

185

(3)

`Critique' from the exteriority of `living labour'

188

(6)

Passage to the essence or the `development' of the concept

194

(3)

The constitution of categories

197

(3)

The Manuscripts of 1861--63 and the `philosophy of liberation'

200

(5)

The Manuscripts of 1861--63 and the `concept of dependency'

205

(30)

`Theories of dependency'

205

(9)

`Competition': the theoretical location of dependency

214

(5)

The `essence' of dependency: transfer of surplus value as a result of international social relations

219

(7)

The phenomena of dependency and necessary categories

226

(5)

New political conclusions: `national' and `popular' liberation

231

(4)

Appendix 1 Correlation of pages of the different texts (originals and editions)

235

(5)

Appendix 2 Exteriority in Marx's thought

240

(7)

Notes

247

(18)

Bibliography

265

(4)

Index

269

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