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Towards an Unknown Marx A commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861–63

Translated By Yolanda Angulo
  • Published: 2001
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203461754
  • Print ISBN: 9780415215459
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203461754

The recent publication of Marx’s writings in their entirety has been a seminal event in Marxian scholarship. The hitherto unknown second draft of Volume 1 and first draft of Volume 3 of Capital, both published in the Manuscripts of 1861–63, now provide an important intermediate link between the Grundrisse and the final published editions of Capital.

In this book, Enrique Dussel, one of the most original Marxist philosophers in the world today, provides an authoritative and detailed commentary on the manuscripts of 1861–63.

The main points which Dussel emphasizes in this path-breaking work are as follows:

  • The fundamental category in Marx’s theory is ‘living labour’ which exists outside of capital and which capital must subsume in order to produce surplus value.

  • Theories of Surplus Value is not a historical survey of previous theories, but rather a ‘critical confrontation’ through which Marx developed new categories for his own theory.

  • The most important new categories developed in this manuscript are related to the ‘forms of appearance’ of surplus value.

The final part of the book discusses the relevance of the Manuscripts of 1861–63 to contemporary global capitalism, especially to the continuing underdevelopment and extreme poverty of Latin America.

Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Editor’s introduction By Fred Moseley
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    Author’s introduction By Enrique Dussel
  • The central Notebooks of ‘Chapter III’: The production process of capital
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      Overview
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      Money becomes capital: from exteriority to totality: Notebooks I and II, pp. 1–88; started in August 1861 (MECW. 30: 9–171)
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      Absolute surplus value: Notebook III, pp. 95–124; after August 1861 (MECW. 30: 172–232)
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      Relative surplus value: Notebooks III, IV and V, pp. 125–211; up to March 1862 (MECW. 30: 233–346)
  • Critical confrontation of the system of categories as a whole: The so-called ‘theories of surplus value’
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      Overview
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      Critical confrontation with Steuart and the Physiocrats: Notebook VI, pp. 220–43; started in March 1862 (MECW. 30: 347–76)
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      Adam Smith’s perplexities: Notebooks VI and VII, pp. 243–99; after March 1862 (MECW. 30: 376–451)
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      Productive labour: Notebooks VII and X, pp. 299–444; between April and May 1862 (MECW. 31: 7–250)
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      The theory of rent: Notebooks X–XII, pp. 445–636; from June to August of 1862 (MECW. 31: 250–578)
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      Surplus value, profit, accumulation and crisis in Ricardo: Notebooks XII and XIII, pp. 636–752; between August and September of 1862 (MECW. 32: 9–208)
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      The fetishism of vulgar and apologetic economics: Notebooks XIII to XV, pp. 753–944; October and November of 1862 (MECW. 32: 209–541)
  • New discoveries
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      Overview
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      Towards ‘Chapter II’ and ‘Chapter III’: Notebooks XV–XVIII, pp. 944–1,157; November 1862 to January 1863 (MECW. 33: 9–371)
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      New clarifications for ‘Chapter I’: Notebook V, pp. 211–19 and Notebooks XIX–XXIII, pp. 1,159–1,472; from January to July 1863 (MECW. 33: 372 – MECW. 34: 336)
  • The new transition
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      Overview
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      The Manuscripts of 1861–63 and the philosophy of liberation
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      The Manuscripts of 1861–63 and the ‘concept of dependency’
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    Back Matter