From: Fred B. Moseley (fmoseley@mtholyoke.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 16:36:57 EDT
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, gerald_a_levy wrote: > Re Fred's [7754]: > > "no textual evidence at all ...." ??? > > Putting aside for now citations from Marx's manuscripts, > including the _Grundrisse_ (which were discussed previously > in the "ideal vs. real value" thread), let us consider > the following sections from _Capital_: > > (all page numbers below are from Penguin/Vintage > editions) > > Volume 2: > > 124-125 > 145-146 > 203 > 205-206 > 295-297 > 396 > 399 > 418-419 > 423 > > Volume 3: > > 134-135 > 352-353 > 393 > 966-967 > 982 Jerry, my statement that "I see no textual evidence at all, in any of Marx's manuscripts, that he himself followed such a "two-stage" method" referred to how I understood Riccardo's interpretation, according to which: Stage 1 is determination of a hypothetical total surplus-value (dM*) proportional to the labor-time embodied in surplus goods. Stage 2 is the transformation of this hypothetical total surplus-value into the actual total surplus-value (dM). I don't see that any of the passages you have cited suggest this kind of "two-stage" determination of the total actual surplus-value. Would you please clarify? Thanks. Comradely, Fred
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