Andrew writes
"In Ch. 15 of Volume III of Capital, Marx emphasizes a 3-fold
separation of the production of surplus-value from its "realization"
for the capitalist in the market-temporal, theoretical, but also
spatial. I've never really understood why the spatial matters. Can
anyone help out here?"
Andrew, about the spatial in general, I don't know whether this help.
The way I see it is this (in very brutal terms): The substance of ***it****
all is human beings, the way they are subsumed within capital and the
way they fight against it and attempts to go beyond it. But we as human
beings can only act, operate, relate to each other, in short, live, through
space and time. These are the two dimensions of **life**. Now, remember
the metaphor used by Marx, the one about capital and its vampire-like
character. Well, a vampire is about sucking life, and how can capital
suck life out of us if not by imposing on us ITS DIMENSION OF
TIME (as LABOR AND ONLY LABOR AND ONLY LABOR-TIME)
and ITS DIMENSION OF SPACE as ENCLOSURE, as separation
from direct access to means of producing life AND to prevent that the
mobility among "the workers of the world" reaches too dangerous degree.
Hope this help.
Ciao
Massimo