Essays on Marx's Theory of Value

Susumu Takenaga, Ph.D. (1984), Université de Paris X, is an Emeritus Professor at Daito Bunka University, Tokyo. He has taught the history of economic thought and has published numerous books and articles in Japanese, French, and English, including Ricardo on Money and Finance (Routledge, 2013).

• List of FiguresPartA Editorial Foreword by the TranslatorPartB ‘Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value’Foreword to the Fourth EditionForeword to the Third EditionIntroductionSubpartI Marx’s Theory of Commodity FetishismIntroduction to SubpartI: Marx’s Theory of Commodity Fetishism1 The Objective Basis of Commodity Fetishism2 The Process of Production and its Social Form3 The Reification of the Relations of Production of People and Personification of Things4 Thing and Social Function (Form)5 Relations of Production and Material Categories6 Struve on the Theory of Commodity Fetishism7 The Development of the Theory of Fetishism in MarxSubpartII Marx’s Theory of Labour ValueIntroduction to SubpartII: Marx’s Theory of Labour Value8 Basic Characteristics of Marx’s Theory of Value9 Value as the Regulator of Production10 The Equality of Commodity Producers and Equality of Commodities11 The Equality of Commodities and Equality of Labour12 The Content and Form of Value[Supplement 1: Chapter12 in the Second Edition (Chapter9 in the First Edition)] Value and Exchange Value (the Content and Form of Value)13 Social Labour14 Abstract Labour[Supplement 2: Chapter14 in the Second Edition (Chapter10 in the First Edition)] Abstract Labour15 Qualified Labour16 Socially Necessary Labour17 Value and Social Need1 Value and Demand2 Value and Proportional Distribution of Labour3 Value and Volumes of Production4 The Equalisation of Demand and Supply18 Value and Prices of Production1 Distribution and Equilibrium of Capitals2 Distribution of Capitals and Distribution of Labour3 Prices of Production4 Labour Value and Prices of Production5 The Historical Foundation of the Theory of Labour Value19 Productive LabourAppendicesAppendix1: On the Terminology of Marx1 Labour and Value2 ‘Crystallisation’3 Thing and Social FunctionAppendix2: Reply to Critics1 Reply to I.Dashkovsky2 Reply to S.Shabs3 Reply to A.Cohn4 Reply to S.BessonovPartC Rubin’s Journal Articles in Relation to his Main Work1 ‘Relations of Production and Material Categories’ (1924)2 ‘Review on Franz Petry’ (1924)3 ‘Abstract Labour and Value in Marx’s System’ (1927)I.II.III.4 ‘On the History of the Text of the First Chapter of Capital by K.Marx’ (1929)Chapter I: Value and Exchange Value in Critique and CapitalChapter II: Marx and BaileyPartD Documents published in the Soviet Union during the Value Controversy in the 1920s1 A.Voznesensky: ‘On the Problem of the Understanding of the Category of Abstract Labour’ (1925)2 I.Dashkovsky: ‘Abstract Labour and the Economic Categories of Marx’ (1926)3 S.Shabs: from The Problem of Social Labour in Marx’s Economic System– A Critique of ‘Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value’ by I.Rubin (1928)4 A.Cohn: ‘Some Observations of my Critics in the Light of Marx’s Theory’ (1928)5 V.Dunaevsky: ‘The Law of Labour Value in Capitalism in I.Rubin’s Essays’ (1929)6 A.Greblis, M.Korovai, I.Stepanov: ‘On the Disputable Problems of the Theory of Value (about I.I.Rubin’s Book, Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value)’ (1929)7 M.Saigushkin: ‘Abstract Labour as a Materialistic Category’ (1929)8 E.Landye: ‘The Marxist Method and the Foundation of the Theory of Value (for a Characterisation of the New Variant of Bogdanovshchina)’ (1929)9 I.Blyumin: ‘On the Problem of Labour Forming Value’ (1929)10 Z.Verner: ‘How Rubin’s System of Views is Pushing Ahead Under the Guise of Battle with the Mechanists’ (1930)PartE Translator’s Introductory Essay– Rubin’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value and the Value Controversy in the Soviet Union in the 1920sI The Rubin Controversy and its Political OppressionII The Controversy around Rubin’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value in the Soviet Union during the 1920sName Index