Marx's theory of the genesis of money : : how, why, and through what is a commodity money / / by Samezo Kuruma ; translated and edited by Michael Schauerte.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 154
• VerfasserIn: Kuruma, Samezō,
• TeilnehmendeR: Schauerte, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English; Japanese
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 154.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 194 pages).
• Notes: "Contains the full text of Kuruma's book, Kachikeitai-ron to kokankate-ron (Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process) published by Iwanami Shoten in 1957; and a slightly abridged version of Part I of his 1979 book Kahei-ron (Theory of Money)"--Notes on the text.

In this volume, Marx’s Theory of the Genesis of Money. How, Why, and Through What is a Commodity Money? , the first of the author’s works to be translated into English, Samezō Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital , Volume I. Kuruma carefully explains each of the theoretical questions raised by Marx, particularly the theory of the value-form, which unravels the mystery surrounding money. The theoretical knowledge Marx gains from his analysis of the commodity is the linchpin of Capital , but he recognises that this presents the reader with the ‘greatest difficulty’ – just as ‘beginnings are always difficult in all sciences’. Kuruma helps to ease this difficulty by making the reader clearly aware of how and why Marx poses his theoretical questions. This work includes an English translation of the full text of Kuruma’s book, Kachikeitai-ron to kōkankate-ron (Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process) (Iwanami Shoten, 1957) and a slightly abridged version of Part I of Kahei-ron (Theory of Money) (Otsuki Shoten, 1979). It is a substantially revised edition of the English translation under the same title, Marx's Theory of the Genesis of Money , that was self-published by the translator (Outskirts Press, 2008).

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Introduction to This Edition / Michael Schauerte -- Preface -- Theory of the Value Form and Theory of the Exchange Process -- Why is the Want of the Commodity Owner Abstracted from in the Theory of the Value Form? -- The Questions ‘How, Why and through What’ -- Riddle of the Money Form and the Riddle of Money -- Difference between the First and the Second Edition of Capital -- The Significance of the ‘Why Question’ -- In What Sense is the Simple Value Form ‘Accidental’? -- The ‘Detour’ of Value Expression -- The Meaning of the ‘Formal Content of the Relative Expression of Value’ -- How the Development of the Value Form Unfolds -- The Meaning of Abstracting from the Individual Want of the Commodity Owner -- What is the ‘Dialectic’ in the Case of the Value Form? -- Bibliography -- Index.