Marx & Engels Collected Works
Volume 33
1861-1863
(Economic Manuscripts of 1861-1863, remaining parts)
Contents
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63
Preface to Marx-Engels Collected Works Volume (33)
Capital and Profit
1) Surplus Value and Profit
2) Profit always expresses Surplus Value too Small
3) The Ratio is Altered Numerically and in Form
4) The Same Surplus Value may be expressed in very different Rates of Profit; the Same Rate of Profit may express very Different Surplus Values
5) Relation of Surplus Value and Profit = Relation of Variable Capital to Total Capital
6) Costs of Production
7) General Law of the Fall in the Rate of Profit with the Progress of Capitalist Production
Miscellanea
Mercantile Capital
5) Theories of Surplus Value
l) Proletarian Opposition on the Basis of Ricardo
XXII. Ramsay
[1. The Attempt to Distinguish Between Constant and Variable Capital. The View that Capital Is Not an Essential Social Form]
[2. Ramsay's Views on Surplus-Value and on Value. Reduction of Surplus-Value to Profit. The Influence Which Changes in the Value of Constant and Variable Capital Exert on the Rate and Amount of Profit]
[3. Ramsay on the Division of "Gross Profit" into "Net Profit" (Interest) and "Profit of Enterprise". Apologetic Elements in His Views on the "Labour of superintendence", "Insurance Covering the Risk Involved" and "Excess Profit"]
XXIII. Cherbuliez
[1. Distinction Between Two Parts of Capital—the Part Consisting of Machinery and Raw Materials and the Part Consisting of "Means of Subsistence" for the Workers]
[2. On the Progressive Decline in the Number of Workers in Relation to the Amount of Constant Capital]
[3. Cherbuliez's Inkling that the Organic Composition of Capital Is Decisive for the Rate of Profit. His Confusion on This Question. Cherbuliez on the "Law of Appropriation" in Capitalist Economy]
[4. On Accumulation as Extended Reproduction]
[5. Elements of Sismondism in Cherbuliez. On the Organic Composition of Capital Fixed and Circulating Capital]
[6. Cherbuliez Eclectically Combines Mutually Exclusive Propositions of Ricardo and Sismondi]
XXIV. Richard Jones
1. Reverend Richard Jones, "An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation," London, 1831, Part I, Rent [Elements of a Historical Interpretation of Rent. Jones's Superiority over Ricardo in particular Questions of the Theory of Rent and His Mistakes in This Field]
2. Richard Jones, "An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy etc." [The Concept of the "Economical Structure of Nations". Jones's Confusion with regard to the "Labor Fund"]
3. Richard Jones, "Text-book of Lectures on the Political Economy of Nations", Hertford, 1852
[a) Jones's Views Of Capital and the Problem of Productive and Unproductive Labour]
[b) Jones on the Influence Which the Capitalist Mode of Production Exerts on the Development of the Productive Forces. Concerning the Conditions for the Applicability of Additional Fixed Capital]
[c) Jones on Accumulation and Rate of Profit. On the Source of Surplus-value]
3) Relative Surplus Value (continued)
γ) Machinery. Utilisation of the Forces of Nature and of Science (Steam, Electricity, Mechanical and Chemical Agencies)
Continuation, January 1863
Division of Labour and Mechanical Workshop. Tool and Machinery
Division of Labour and Mechanical Workshop. Continued. The Productivity of Labour.
Replacement of Labour by Machinery
Accumulation