Simple production of goods
The simple commodity production is an alleged historical period and phase that the capitalism preceded by his friend, according to the subsequent interpretation of Friedrich Engels , the economist Karl Marx , the representation of the capitalist economic system of his work at the beginning of 1867 published the first volume of Das Kapital to have begun.
With this expression, Engels 1894, in the preface to the third volume of Capital, designates a form of production of commodities that logically and historically precedes capitalist commodity production:
“It goes without saying that where things and their mutual relationships are understood not as fixed but as changeable, their thought images, the concepts, are also subject to change and transformation; that they are not encapsulated in rigid definitions, but in their historical resp. logical educational process developed. After that it will be clear why Marx at the beginning of the first book, where he starts from the simple production of commodities as his historical presupposition, and then continues to come from this basis to capital - why he starts from the simple commodity and not of a conceptually and historically secondary form, of the already capitalistically modified commodity "
Several times before, since his 1859 review of Marx's work On the Critique of Political Economy , Engels had presented his conception of Marx's method of representation as a logical-historical one.
According to Engels, in the historical pre-capitalist agrarian societies the owners of goods consciously exchanged their goods according to the amount of labor time invested in the production of the individual goods. In this respect, Engels advocates a premonetary value theory .
This view was adopted by orthodox Marxism and Marxism-Leninism , but also by the Trotskyist Ernest Mandel and western Marxists such as Wolfgang Fritz Haug , but is considered by authors of the new Marx reading such as Michael Heinrich and Hans-Georg Backhaus to be a misinterpretation of Marx's approach viewed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ MEW , Vol. 25, p. 20
literature
- Rolf Hecker : Simple production of goods . (Written for, but with changed content, published in Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism , Volume 3, 1997).
- Nadja Rakowitz : Simple production of goods. Ideal and ideology . ça ira-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2003, ISBN 3-924627-65-7 .
- Christopher J. Arthur : The Myth of “Simple Commodity Production” (English), 2005