>On 12/11/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>"Historically too, as the capitalist mode of production appears later in >>agriculture than in industry, agricultural profit is determined by >>industrial profit, and not the other way about." >> >>--Karl Marx, V. 1 of Capital, p. 787
I wrote:
>which edition? I couldn't find this quote in the Penguin edition. In >the International Publishers edition, that page is in the "Index of >Authorities."
Louis:
I got the citation from Ken Lawrence's article on slavery that appears here: http://www.sojournertruth.net/marxslavery.html But when I googled the citation, I discovered that it can be found in another work by Marx: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-surplus-value/ch16.htm
then it makes sense, since the TSV is just a bunch of unfinished notes, a more commentary on other thinkers than anything else. Marx presented his most developed thinking in CAPITAL, though the TSV has a lot of worthwhile stuff in it. In CAPITAL, he breaks down the distinction between agriculture and industry, though he doesn't make it as clear as it should be. For example, in the first footnote of chapter 31, he says that he uses the word "industrial" "in contradistinction to agriculture" (as is the usual practice). But then he says that "In the 'categoric' sense the farmer is an industrial capitalist as much as the manufacturer." That is, the farmer he's talking about is involved in M-C-M' (with M' > M) with one of the commodities C being labor-power bought on the market (proletarian labor-power). -- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
