On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:01 PM, michael a. lebowitz wrote:
But Marx, when talking about the relation between surplus
value and profit/interest/rent (or value and price)--- which is the
relation relevant to 'transformation' issues--- is not talking
about 'shared characteristics' (which implies coexisting on the
same level); rather, he is explicitly talking about 'invisible
essence' and surface forms--- which cannot exist on the same level:
"Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are… the invisible
essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence
the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface
phenomena" (Marx, 1981b: 134).
Of course that essence has no existence separate from the surface
phenomena, does it?
Doug
