22. On this distinction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, see the essay on Class Consciousness 23. A Contribution to the Critique of political Economy, p. 31 24. Capital l, p. 572 25. All so-called theories of abstinence are based on this. We may mention especially the importance attributed by Max Weber to inner worldly asceticism'in the origins of the spirit'of capitalism. Marx, too, confirms this fact when he points out that for the capitalist"his own private consumption is a robbery perpetrated on accumulation, just as in book-keeping by double entry, the private expenditure of the capitalist is placed on the debtor side of his account against his capital". Capital 1, p 592 26. Wages, Price and Profit in S.w.I, p. 398 27. Anti-Duihring, p. 141 28. Capital l, p. 309 29. A Contribution to the Critique of political Economy, p. 29 30. Thus Marx writes to Engels: These gentry, the economists have hitherto overlooked the extremely simple point that the form: 20 yards of linen=I coat is only the undeveloped basis of 20 yards of linen=f2, and that therefore the simplest form of a commodity, in which its value is not yet expressed as a relation to all other commodities but only as something differentiated from the commodity in its natural form, contains the whole secret of the money-form and with it, in embryo, of all the bourgeois form of the product of labour:(22 June, 1867). Selected Correspondence, Moscow, n.d., p. 228 On this point see also the magisterial analysis of the distinction between exchange value and price in A Contribution to the Critique of political Economy where it is shown that in this distinction"all the tempests that threaten the commodity in the real process of circulation are concentrated",p 80 31. Werke 11, p. 27 32. A Contribution to the Critique of political Economy, p. 299 Table of Contents Lukacs Archive ●关闭窗口22. On this distinction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, see the essay on “Class Consciousness". 23. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, p. 31. 24. Capital I, p. 572. 25. All so-called theories of abstinence are based on this. We may mention especially the importance attributed by Max Weber to ‘inner worldly asceticism’ in the origins of the ‘spirit’ of capitalism. Marx, too, confirms this fact when he points out that for the capitalist “his own private consumption is a robbery perpetrated on accumulation, just as in book-keeping by double entry, the private expenditure of the capitalist is placed on the debtor side of his account against his capital". Capital 1, p. 592. 26. Wages, Price and Profit in S.W. I, p. 398. 27. Anti-Dühring, p. 141. 28. Capital I, p. 309. 29. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, p. 29. 30. Thus Marx writes to Engels: “These gentry, the economists have hitherto overlooked the extremely simple point that the form: 20 yards of linen = 1 coat is only the undeveloped basis of 20 yards of linen = f.2, and that therefore the simplest form of a commodity, in which its value is not yet expressed as a relation to all other commodities but only as something differentiated from the commodity in its natural form, contains the whole secret of the money-form and with it, in embryo, of all the bourgeois form of the product of labour. (22 June, 1867). Selected Correspondence, Moscow, n.d., p. 228. On this point see also the magisterial analysis of the distinction between exchange value and price in A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy where it is shown that in this distinction “all the tempests that threaten the commodity in the real process of circulation are concentrated", p. 80. 31. Werke 11, p. 27. 32. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, p. 299. Table of Contents | Lukacs Archive