which isn't a reflection of a theoretical deficit, but of a contradiction that you yourself tacitly affirm when you discussed the Jehu thesis (LTV tracking diminishing elements, that is the human-value complex in the production process).
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Replying to @EBBerger @Outsideness and
Jehu recognizes this as the self-negation of capital, which isn't to say that it is a wind-down of development, but actually the opposite: it's the unshackling of fetters, because its striking out the necessity of realizing surplus value as systemic motor.
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"Yeah, but capital is such a shit-storm of practical contradiction that rigorous reductio doesn't prove anything" isn't going to cut it except among true believers.
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger and
... The fact that Marx himself gave up on his (theoretical) project after reaching this point says something, surely? ...
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After formulating the Transformation Problem. It's not really controversial. Given the long-awaited critical edition of the Marx corpus it's stark. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @ObCap and
The formulation of the transformation problem was conducted ahead of Volume I being published (mid-1860s), and the letters to Engels wrt to Dühring and price-value determination occurred later (late 1860s)...
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Replying to @EBBerger @Outsideness and
Additionally, Marx continued to work on what was to be the 4th volume of Capital, which was published in the early 1900s by Kautsky as Theories of Surplus Value. Given that BB was publishing in the 1890s, there's a discrepancy here with the account of 'giving up'.
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Replying to @EBBerger @Outsideness and
No, Theories of Surplus Value was written in the 1860s in preparation for Capital. He was working on a fourth volume at the time of his death, and ToSV is sometimes called "the fourth volume of Capital", but they're not the same thing.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @Outsideness and
Noted. Also worth mentioning are the materials that flowed into the Ethnological Notebooks, illustrating that work didn't halt but took an increasingly anthropological character.
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Okay, choose your lunatic hill to die on.
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