New PDF release: Collected Works, Vol. 28: Marx: 1857-1861

By Frederick Engels Karl Marx

ISBN-10: 071780528X

ISBN-13: 9780717805280

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Or it turns the conquered into slaves, thus making slave labour the basis of production. Or a people breaks up the large landed estates into plots in a revolution; hence gives production a new character by this new distribution. Or legislation perpetuates land ownership in certain families, or allocates labour [as] a hereditary privilege, thus fixing it according to caste. In all these cases, and they are all historical, distribution does not seem to be regulated and determined by production but, on the contrary, production seems to be regulated and determined by distribution.

NB. g. , were evolved earlier than within civil society. The relation between productive power and conditions of communication is likewise particularly evident in the army. • i 46 Introduction (2) The relation of the hitherto existing idealistic historiography to realistic historiography. In particular what is known as history of civilisation, which is all a history of religion and states. (In this context something can also be said about the various kinds of historiography hitherto existing. ) (3) Secondary and tertiary [relations], in general derived and transmitted, non-original, relations of production.

G. rent, wages, interest and profit figure under the heading of distribution, while under the heading of production we see land, labour and capital figure as agents of production. As to capital, it is evident from the outset that it is posited twice, ( 1 ) as an agent of production, and (2) as a source of income; as determining and determined forms of distribution. Interest and profit as such therefore figure in production as well, since they are forms in which capital increases and grows, and are thus moments of its very production.

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