Results of the Direct Production Process

by Karl Marx, Gus G (Contributor)

Results of the Direct Production Process (otherwise known as Results of the Immediate Production Process ) is part of a third draft of Capital which Marx wrote between the summer of 1863 and the summer of 1864, based on a plan Marx made for the work in December 1862. This manuscript has been lost, apart from a few pages from what would become the first five chapters of Capital, some related footnotes, and what was to become the sixth chapter. The pagination and content of this sixth chapter indicate that it followed on from five previous chapters. By the time Capital was completed however, this chapter had not been not included.




The content of the chapter ranges over a variety of subjects, but most particularly deals in greater detail than elsewhere with (i) the "formal" and "real" subsumption of the labour process by capital, and (ii) productive and unproductive labour.




Results of the Direct Production Process is to be read with the preceding five books in the Radical Reprints Theories of Surplus Value Volumes 1 - 3 by Karl Marx, Essays on Marx's Theory of Value by I.I. Rubin, and Capital and Community by Jacques Camatte, for these, along with Results , add onto the project of realizing and dismantling capital as a totality that Marx was unable to complete with only the three volumes of Capital that were finished and published. It is in this work that Marx's theory is illuminated, piecing together the fragments of Marx's total conception of Capital. As Camatte wrote in Capital and Community , "In a way it provides a key, not to understand Capital which is self-sufficient, but to the entire work surrounding it."




This Radical Reprint by Pattern Books is made to be accessible and as close to only manufacturing cost as possible

Genres: Economics

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.

German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.

Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.

Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.

Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.

Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .

People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.

Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).

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http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
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Reviews

[Halcyon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Considerably more difficult to read than any other part of Volume 1. Very interesting discussions on formal vs. real subsumption of labour under capital, and productive vs. unproductive labour.

[ernst · Rating 3 out of 5]

Der Manuskript gebliebene Versuch durch Marx den ersten Teil vom Kapital I verständlicher zusammenzufassen. Wenn man das Glück hat, von der Existenz des Textes zu erfahren, wird er in der Regel als tatsächlich verständlichere Darstellung gepriesen. Dem ist aber nicht so. Wenn man nicht bereits mit dem Kapital vertraut ist, wird das eher ein schwierigerer Text sein.

Dafür bietet er andere Vorteile, namentlich für Menschen mit entsprechendem Vorwissen einige wichtige Aspekte der Theorie noch einmal eingehender zu beleuchten. So geht Marx beispielsweise gerade im ersten Teil dieses Textes noch einmal eingehend auf den Warenfetischismus ein und entwickelt ihn aus verschiedenen Perspektiven mit sehr schönen Formulierungen.