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RADNA TEORIJA VREDNOSTI, PROSTA ROBNA PROIZVODNJA I TRANSFORMACIONI PROBLEM
THE LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE, SIMPLE COMMODITY PRODUCTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION PROBLEM

Author(s): Bill Jefferies
Contributor(s): Nenad Bradonjić (Translator), Aleksandra M. Petrović (Translator)
Subject(s): Marxism
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Value Theory; Transformation Problem; Historical Logical Method; Simple Commodity Production; Okishio Theorem; The Falling Rate of Profit

Summary/Abstract: This article revaluates contemporary criticism of Marx’s value theory. Key tenets of Marx’s value theory are widely rejected. The use of labour (abstract or otherwise) as a standard of value is deemed ‘mystical’ or ‘magical’. The logical-historical method is false. The notion of simple commodity production a mistake. The solution to the transformation of values into prices of production mathematically incorrect. The theory of surplus value is superfluous. Okshio’s theorem refutes Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. This article shows that the assumptions necessary to sustain this critique amount to a rejection of human production in general and capitalist production in particular.

  • Issue Year: 4/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 287-305
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian