From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 11:55:46 EST
> * Added to the Marx-Engels Archive: > > Marx's Economic Manuscripts of 1861 > Written Aug 1861 and March 1862, at which point Marx abandoned the > work to take up what became known as Theories of Surplus Value > (Currently nearing completion on MIA courtesy of Hans Ehrbar), this was > to be Chapter Three of Contribution to the Critique of Political > Economy, on capital. Marx returned to the work in January 1863, and > abandoned it again in July to begin what finally became Capital. Thus > this manuscript is the immediate predecessor of Capital. It deals mainly > with Marx's concepts of capital, relative and absolute surplus value, > with an important digression on Productive Labour. The manuscript breaks > off in a consideration of the role of machinery, where Marx will pick up > again in January 1863. > The only previous publication of this manuscript is in Volume 30 of > MECW. > http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/economic/index.htm > [Thanks to Andy Blunden]
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