(a) What is the "ideal average" of capitalism?
(b) What does the following passage tell us about what lies within and
beyond _Capital_?
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"In presenting the reification of the relations of production and
the autonomy they acquire vis-a-vis the agents of production,
we shall not go into the form and manner in which these
connections appear to them as overwhelmingly natural laws,
governing them irrespective of their will, in the form that the
WORLD MARKET AND ITS CONJUNCTURES, the movement of MARKET
PRICES, the CYCLES OF INDUSTRY and TRADE and the ALTERNATION OF
PROSPERITY AND CRISIS prevails on them as blind necessity. This
is because the ACTUAL MOVEMENT OF COMPETITION LIES OUTSIDE OUR
PLAN, and we are only out to present the internal organization
of the capitalist mode of production, its IDEAL AVERAGE, as it
were" (Volume 3, Penguin ed., next to last paragraph in Ch. 48,
p. 970).
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In solidarity, Jerry