As any writer knows, various edits and revisions occur between subsequent drafts of a manuscript. Some of those revisions are more consequential than others. In Karl Marx, Revisionist ( https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2025/12/karl-marx-revisionist.html ) , I trace the evolution of Marx's discussion of disposable time and surplus value through two successive drafts and the final published version of volume one of Capital. My working hypothesis was that disposable time was a key category for the analysis of surplus value in the Grundrisse but it went 'underground' in the published volume one. The first paragraph begins:
Between 1857 and 1867 Karl Marx wrote four drafts of what would become the first volume of Das Kapital. The presumed third draft of volume one is missing. One theory is that this draft was substantially the same as the final draft, which was a 'fair copy' of it. The three extant drafts, the Grundrisse , the 1861-63 manuscript, and the published volume one of Capital are plenty for examining Marx’s revisions of what he argued was the basis of surplus-value and thus of a class of large proprietors: no surplus, no classes; no classes, no class struggle. continued... ( https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2025/12/karl-marx-revisionist.html ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39696): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39696 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116741905/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
