Marx's Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63
The Production Process
of CapitalA Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Third Chapter, Capital in General
Source: MECW Volumes 30 and 33 (the sole available source);
Translated: Ben Fowkes;
Written: August 1861 - March 1862 and January - July 1863;
Marx’s description of this work: see Letter to Kugelmann, 28th Dec. 1862.
1) Transformation of Money into Capital Notebook I
c) Exchange with Labour. Labour Process. Valorisation Process
Value of Labour Capacity. Minimum Salary or Average Wage of Labour
Unity of the Labour Process and the Valorisation Process
(The Capitalist Production Process)Notebook II
The 2 Components of the Transformation of Money into Capital
Notebook III
2) Absolute Surplus Value a) Surplus Value as a Simple Relation to a Capital Laid Out in Wages
b) Ratio of Surplus Labour to Necessary Labour. Measure of Surplus Labour
3) Relative Surplus Value Notebook IV
a) Cooperation
Notebook V
g) Machinery. Utilisation of the Forces of Nature and of Science
Notebook XIX [continuation of V]
Division of Labour and Mechanical Workshop. Tool and Machinery
Notebook VI [continuation of XX]
Conclusion. Replacement of Labour by Machinery
Notebook XX
Converted Form of the Value of Labour Capacity in the Value or Price of Labour
Ratio of Surplus Value to Variable Capital or Surplus Labour to Necessary Labour
Notebook XXI
i) Formal and Real Subsumption of Labour under Capital. Transitional Forms
k) Productivity of Capital, Productive and Unproductive Labour
Addenda
Notebook XXII
4) Reconversion of Surplus Value into Capital a) Reconversion of Surplus Value into Capital
b) So-called Primitive Accumulation
Notebook XVI
Capital and Profit 4) The Same Rate of Surplus Value May Express Different Rates of Profit
7) Law of the Fall in the Rate of Profit with Progress of Capitalist Production
Notebook XVII
Miscellanea Labour Process and Valorisation Process: Use Value and Exchange Value
Diminution in the Rate of Profit
Constant Capital. Absolute Quantity of Capital
Decline in the Rate of Profit
Accumulation
Diminution of Outgoings for Constant Capital
Notebook XV
Mercantile Capital Mercantile Capital. Money-dealing Capital
Notebook XVII [Continuation of XV]
Episode. Reflux Movements of Money in Capitalist Reproduction
Mercantile Capital [Continued]