Marx’s method
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Various Marxist authors have focussed on Marx’s method of analysis and presentation (historical materialist and logically dialectical) as key factors both in understanding the range and incisiveness of Karl Marx
’s theoretical writing in general and Capital in particular. One of the clearest and most instructive examples of this is his discussion of the value-form, which acts as a primary guide or key to understanding the logical argument as it develops throughout the volumes of Capital.
Marx himself presents a simplified explanation in the Appendix to the first German edition of Das Kapital
published in English translation in Capital & Class. The need for this appendix was suggested by Engels and there is an exchange of correspondence concerning its purpose and form.
focussed considerable effort in often difficult circumstances in pursuing fundamental research into Marx’s method. His studies resulted amongst others in his masterwork: The Law of Accumulation and the breakdown of the Capitalist System: Being also a theory of crises Pluto 1992.
Evald Ilyenkov
The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx’s Capital Progress Moscow 1982
Franz Jakubowski
in his Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism Pluto 1990
Karl Korsch
Three Essays on Marxism Pluto 1971 and Marxism and Philosophy Monthly Review 1970
György Lukács in "What is Orthodox Marxism?", defined orthodoxy as the fidelity to the "Marxist method"
Geoffrey Pilling Marx’s Capital: Philosophy and political economy RKP 1980
Roman Rosdolsky
particularly in The Making of Marx's Capital Pluto 1980
Isaak Illich Rubin
Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value Black & Red 1972
Jindřich Zelený
The Logic of Marx Blackwell 1980
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
’s theoretical writing in general and Capital in particular. One of the clearest and most instructive examples of this is his discussion of the value-form, which acts as a primary guide or key to understanding the logical argument as it develops throughout the volumes of Capital.
Marx himself presents a simplified explanation in the Appendix to the first German edition of Das Kapital
Das Kapital
Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie , by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy, meant to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production, and how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production.- Themes :In Capital: Critique of...
published in English translation in Capital & Class. The need for this appendix was suggested by Engels and there is an exchange of correspondence concerning its purpose and form.
Readings on Marx’s method
Henryk GrossmanHenryk Grossman
Henryk Grossmanalternative spelling: Henryk Grossmann , was a Polish-German economist and historian of Jewish descent....
focussed considerable effort in often difficult circumstances in pursuing fundamental research into Marx’s method. His studies resulted amongst others in his masterwork: The Law of Accumulation and the breakdown of the Capitalist System: Being also a theory of crises Pluto 1992.
Evald Ilyenkov
Evald Ilyenkov
Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov was a Marxist author and Soviet philosopher who did original work on the materialist development of Hegel's dialectics...
The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx’s Capital Progress Moscow 1982
Franz Jakubowski
Franz Jakubowski
Franz Jakubowski was a Marxist theorist. Born in Poznań, Poland, he grew up in what was then the Free City of Danzig. His father was a doctor. From 1930 to 1933 he studied law in Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich and Breslau, before completing his studies in political science at Basel University...
in his Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism Pluto 1990
Karl Korsch
Karl Korsch
-Biography:Korsch was born in Tostedt, near Hamburg, to Carl August Korsch, a secretary at the cantonal court and his wife Therese. In 1898 the family moved to Meiningen, Thuringia and Korsch senior attained the position of a managing clerk in a bank...
Three Essays on Marxism Pluto 1971 and Marxism and Philosophy Monthly Review 1970
György Lukács in "What is Orthodox Marxism?", defined orthodoxy as the fidelity to the "Marxist method"
Geoffrey Pilling Marx’s Capital: Philosophy and political economy RKP 1980
Roman Rosdolsky
Roman Rosdolsky
Roman Rosdolsky was an important Marxian scholar and political activist. He was born in Lviv in Galicia, at that time in the Austro-Hungarian empire, now in Ukraine, and died in Detroit, MI...
particularly in The Making of Marx's Capital Pluto 1980
Isaak Illich Rubin
Isaak Illich Rubin
Isaak Illich Rubin was a Russian economist and is considered to be the most important theorist of his time on the field of Marx's theory of value. His main work Essays on Marx's Theory of Value was published in 1924. During the course of the Great Purge he was executed in 1937.-Main Works:* Rubin,...
Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value Black & Red 1972
Jindřich Zelený
Jindřich Zelený
Jindřich Zelený was a Czech philosopher and the author of several books. Zelený’s work is a valuable contribution and a good example of constructive modern Marxist scholarship, drawing upon materials which only became available in recent decades.-Early years:He was born in Bítovany, Czech...
The Logic of Marx Blackwell 1980