Skip to main content

The Fundamental Defects in the ‘Laws’ in Capital: The Laws of Capitalist Accumulation and the Falling Rate of Profit Re-examined

  • Chapter
  • 22 Accesses

Abstract

For some people Marx is already a ‘dead dog’.1 For others he is still a symbol of infallibility. Both approaches, or rather non-approaches, are unscientific. The necessity of scientific and objective evaluation of Marxism is ever increasing at this time of history.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Buying options

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Notes

Chapter 4

  1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, Great Books of the World, vol. 46, 1952, p. 77.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  2. Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1957, pp. 69–70.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Rosenkranz, Hegels Leben, 1844, SS.85–6.

    Google Scholar 

  4. W. W. Rostow, The World Economy — History and Prospect, Macmillan, 1978, p. 157.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Sources: 1840–50, R.S. Tucker, Real Wages of Artisans in London; 1850–80

    Google Scholar 

  6. G.H. Wood, ‘Real wages at full work’ (in Walter T. Lay ton and Geoffrey Crowther, An Introduction to the Study of Prices, Macmillan, 1938, p. 273).

    Google Scholar 

  7. John Lewis, Marxism and the Open Mind, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1957, p. 152.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Copyright information

© 1991 Tadao Horie

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Horie, T. (1991). The Fundamental Defects in the ‘Laws’ in Capital: The Laws of Capitalist Accumulation and the Falling Rate of Profit Re-examined. In: Marx’s Capital and One Free World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11618-8_4

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics