A new English translation of Isaak Illich Rubin’s classic Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value. First published in the Soviet Union in 1923, Rubin’s book sparked a fierce value controversy with contemporary Soviet economists during the late 1920s. As such, the present translation is conceived as a variorum edition, including all the essential supplementary materials related to this foundational work in Marx’s value theory, published here in English for the first time. In addition to Rubin’s main work, this edition includes his four most important related publications, as well as ten debate…mehr
A new English translation of Isaak Illich Rubin’s classic Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value. First published in the Soviet Union in 1923, Rubin’s book sparked a fierce value controversy with contemporary Soviet economists during the late 1920s. As such, the present translation is conceived as a variorum edition, including all the essential supplementary materials related to this foundational work in Marx’s value theory, published here in English for the first time. In addition to Rubin’s main work, this edition includes his four most important related publications, as well as ten debate articles written and published by his contemporary proponents and opponents.
List of Figures Part A Editorial Foreword by the Translator Part B ‘Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value’ Foreword to the Fourth Edition Foreword to the Third Edition Introduction Subpart I Marx’s Theory of Commodity Fetishism Introduction to SubpartI: Marx’s Theory of Commodity Fetishism 1 The Objective Basis of Commodity Fetishism 2 The Process of Production and its Social Form 3 The Reification of the Relations of Production of People and Personification of Things 4 Thing and Social Function (Form) 5 Relations of Production and Material Categories 6 Struve on the Theory of Commodity Fetishism 7 The Development of the Theory of Fetishism in Marx Subpart II Marx’s Theory of Labour Value Introduction to SubpartII: Marx’s Theory of Labour Value 8 Basic Characteristics of Marx’s Theory of Value 9 Value as the Regulator of Production 10 The Equality of Commodity Producers and Equality of Commodities 11 The Equality of Commodities and Equality of Labour 12 The Content and Form of Value [Supplement 1: Chapter 12 in the Second Edition (Chapter 9 in the First Edition)] Value and Exchange Value (the Content and Form of Value) 13 Social Labour 14 Abstract Labour [Supplement 2: Chapter 14 in the Second Edition (Chapter10 in the First Edition)] Abstract Labour 15 Qualified Labour 16 Socially Necessary Labour 17 Value and Social Need 1 Value and Demand 2 Value and Proportional Distribution of Labour 3 Value and Volumes of Production 4 The Equalisation of Demand and Supply 18 Value and Prices of Production 1 Distribution and Equilibrium of Capitals 2 Distribution of Capitals and Distribution of Labour 3 Prices of Production 4 Labour Value and Prices of Production 5 The Historical Foundation of the Theory of Labour Value 19 Productive Labour Appendices Appendix 1: On the Terminology of Marx 1 Labour and Value 2 ‘Crystallisation’ 3 Thing and Social Function Appendix 2: Reply to Critics 1 Reply to I.Dashkovsky 2 Reply to S.Shabs 3 Reply to A.Cohn 4 Reply to S.Bessonov Part C Rubin’s Journal Articles in Relation to his Main Work 1 ‘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 Capital Chapter II: Marx and Bailey Part D Documents published in the Soviet Union during the Value Controversy in the 1920s 1 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) Part E Translator’s Introductory Essay– Rubin’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value and the Value Controversy in the Soviet Union in the 1920s I The Rubin Controversy and its Political Oppression II The Controversy around Rubin’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value in the Soviet Union during the 1920s Name Index
List of Figures Part A Editorial Foreword by the Translator Part B ‘Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value’ Foreword to the Fourth Edition Foreword to the Third Edition Introduction Subpart I Marx’s Theory of Commodity Fetishism Introduction to SubpartI: Marx’s Theory of Commodity Fetishism 1 The Objective Basis of Commodity Fetishism 2 The Process of Production and its Social Form 3 The Reification of the Relations of Production of People and Personification of Things 4 Thing and Social Function (Form) 5 Relations of Production and Material Categories 6 Struve on the Theory of Commodity Fetishism 7 The Development of the Theory of Fetishism in Marx Subpart II Marx’s Theory of Labour Value Introduction to SubpartII: Marx’s Theory of Labour Value 8 Basic Characteristics of Marx’s Theory of Value 9 Value as the Regulator of Production 10 The Equality of Commodity Producers and Equality of Commodities 11 The Equality of Commodities and Equality of Labour 12 The Content and Form of Value [Supplement 1: Chapter 12 in the Second Edition (Chapter 9 in the First Edition)] Value and Exchange Value (the Content and Form of Value) 13 Social Labour 14 Abstract Labour [Supplement 2: Chapter 14 in the Second Edition (Chapter10 in the First Edition)] Abstract Labour 15 Qualified Labour 16 Socially Necessary Labour 17 Value and Social Need 1 Value and Demand 2 Value and Proportional Distribution of Labour 3 Value and Volumes of Production 4 The Equalisation of Demand and Supply 18 Value and Prices of Production 1 Distribution and Equilibrium of Capitals 2 Distribution of Capitals and Distribution of Labour 3 Prices of Production 4 Labour Value and Prices of Production 5 The Historical Foundation of the Theory of Labour Value 19 Productive Labour Appendices Appendix 1: On the Terminology of Marx 1 Labour and Value 2 ‘Crystallisation’ 3 Thing and Social Function Appendix 2: Reply to Critics 1 Reply to I.Dashkovsky 2 Reply to S.Shabs 3 Reply to A.Cohn 4 Reply to S.Bessonov Part C Rubin’s Journal Articles in Relation to his Main Work 1 ‘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 Capital Chapter II: Marx and Bailey Part D Documents published in the Soviet Union during the Value Controversy in the 1920s 1 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) Part E Translator’s Introductory Essay– Rubin’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value and the Value Controversy in the Soviet Union in the 1920s I The Rubin Controversy and its Political Oppression II The Controversy around Rubin’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value in the Soviet Union during the 1920s Name Index
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