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A response to Tony Smith's (2003) critique of the author's (2003) identification of three distinct connections between Karl Marx's logic of capital & G. W. F. Hegel's logic of the Idea. Smith's contention that Hegel's philosophical project entailed the development of thought that scrutinized thinking is questioned; in addition, it is stated that Marx acknowledged systemic deficiencies in Hegel's thought. Smith's challenge to the author's detection of a connection between the logic of capital & the class struggle that contributes to capital's formation is then addressed. In addition, Smith's recognition of different "negations" within Hegel's thought is contemplated to better understand how capital achieves freedom while human labor is subsumed under capital's hegemony; the methodological implications of this realization are subsequently pondered. 6 References. J. W. Parker

The concepts of the first chapter of Capital are there presented abstractly. At a more concrete level 'value', 'abstract labour', and 'socially necessary Labour time' must be situated in the capital relation; e.g. the time that is 'socially necessary' is that in which capital 'pumps out' labour. The essentially contested expropriation of the workers' powers by capital leads to a new understanding of the labour theory of value as a dialectic of negativity. Value is the shape of reified labour, the outcome of class struggle in production.

Explicates the usage of the concept of "negation of the negation" in Karl Marx's account of the supersession of capitalism, & explores his obscure remark in this connection about the restoration of "individual property." Accounts by Friedrich Engels & Louis Althusser are considered & rejected. The solution offered displaces the historical dialectic with an appeal to systematic dialectic. It refers the argument of the conclusion of Capital back to the chapter on the transformation of surplus value into capital, in order to restructure the "first negation" as a "virtual" one, grounding the structure of the capital relation in its logical (rather than historical) preconditions. In examining the meaning Marx attributes to the change in property relations, & especially the concept of property in socialist society, evidence from his Grundrisse is adduced to explain it in terms of his concept of "the social individual.". 18 References. AA