Isaak Illich Rubin 1928

Essays on Marx's Theory of Value

Published: Black and Red, Detroit, 1972;

Translated: Miloš Samardžija and Fredy Perlman from the 3rd edition, Moscow: Gosudasrstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1928;

Transcribed: Sally Ryan 1999, J.L.W. 2008

Proofed: and corrected Chris Clayton 2006 (chpts 1-16), J.L.W. 2008 (chpts 17-19);

HTML Markup: Sally Ryan, 1999, J.L.W., 2008.

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Marx's Theory of Commodity Fetishism

Chapter One. Objective Basis of Commodity Fetishism

Chapter Two. The Production Process and its Social Form

Chapter Three. Reification of Production Relations among People and Personification of Things

Chapter Four. Thing and Social Function (Form)

Chapter Five. Production Relations and Material Categories

Chapter Six. Struve on the Theory of Commodity Fetishism

Chapter Seven. Marx's Development of the Theory of Fetishism

II. Marx's Labor Theory of Value

Chapter Eight. Basic Characteristics of Marx's Theory of Value

Chapter Nine. Value as the Regulator of Production

Chapter Ten. Equality of Commodity Producers and Equality of Commodities

Chapter Eleven. Equality of Commodities and Equality of Labor

Chapter Twelve. Content and Form of Value

Chapter Thirteen. Social Labor

Chapter Fourteen. Abstract Labor

Chapter Fifteen. Qualified Labor

Chapter Sixteen. Socially-Necessary Labor

Chapter Seventeen. Value and Social Need

1. Value and Demand

2. Value and Proportional Distribution of Labor

3. Value and Volume of Production

4. Demand and Supply Equation

Chapter Eighteen. Value and Production Price

1. Distribution and Equilibrium of Capital

2. Distribution of Capital and Distribution of Labor

3. Production Price

4. Labor-Value and Production Price

5. Historical Foundations of the Labor Theory of Value

Chapter Nineteen. Productive Labor