紀要論文

マルクス価値形態論のさらなる発展

Advancing Marx’s Theory of Value-Form

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00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00001941

法政大学経済学部学会

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2006-08-28

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The theory of value-form is Marx’s invention to explain the necessity of money for commodity exchange; in other words, why the value of a commodity must be expressed in price and exchanged only by money. The term exchange-value, very common in classical political economics, could neither identify nor thus solve this problem. Marx discovered two opposing poles within the exchange-value, or an exchange rate between two commodities. These were the relative value-form and the equivalent form. He pointed out that only the latter had direct exchangeability with the former. He then asserted that the direct exchangeability in the simple value-form was the key to solving the above problem and the mystery of money. However, the author claims that Marx’s development of value-forms from the simple to the money-form, or the expression of commodity value in money, based on the definition of value as objectified social labor and the dual nature of labor, significantly impaired Marx’s great achievement, leading to his failure to arrive at a final solution to the problem. Examining closely Marx’s four value-forms individually, the author attempts to delve into such basic concepts as expression of value, direct exchangeability, mystery of money and measurement of value, without recourse to the basis of value, objectified labor. Further, he redefines these concepts more clearly. This is the first step in the critique of the notion ‘labor values,’ which is very popular among Marxist economists in the West, and in the rehabilitation of Marx’s law of value.

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