FRED'S 5784 >On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Christopher Arthur wrote: > >> A philological point relating to my previous post. >> I complain that in the FN against CPE Marx seems to start with a different >> point than that in the text without notice. Part of the explanation is that >> in the first edition of C the FN occurs in what might be thought its >> natural place, at the very end of what would become section 3. Then for the >> second edition he seems to have thought: why not collate together the crits >> of CPE? and just transferred the FN without thinking over the consequences, >> namely as Fred naturally did taking the FN as expansion of the text. > > >I argued in my last post that there is no inconsistency between the text >and the footnote. The only inconsistency is between your interpretation >of the text and the footnote. > >The translation of Chapter 1 in the first edition that I have (the >Dragstedt translation, which you sent me years ago!), unfortunately does >not have this footnote (or any other footnotes; what a poor >translation!). Chris, would you please tell me which paragraph this >footnote is attached to in the first edition? Thanks. > >Although I couldn't find this footnote, I did find the following very >interesting and important sentence at the very end of the "third section": > >"What was decisively important, however, was to discover the inner, >necessary connection between value-FORM, value-SUBSTANCE, and >value-AMOUNT; i.e. expressed conceptually, to prove that the value-FORM >arises out of the value-CONCEPT." (emphasis in the original) > >This seems to me to be another clear statement that Marx derived the form >of value from the substance or the content of value (which is of course >what Marx did in Section 3), not the other way around. > >Thanks for the interesting discussion. > >Comradely, >Fred Dear fred This is indeed the very para to which the footnote is attached. MEGA II 5 p.43. Chris 17 Bristol Road, Brighton, BN2 1AP, England
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