Karl Marx's great discovery : the dual-nature-of-labour doctrine its methodological role / V. Afanasyev, A. Galchinsky, V. Lantsov ; [translated from the Russian by Yuri Sdobnikov].

Title on t.p. verso: Velikoe otkrytie Karla Marksa.

Part 1 originally published: Velikoe otkrytie Karla Marksa / Vl. Afanasʹev. 1980.

Includes indices.

Part One: the methodological roles of Marx's dual-nature-of-labour doctrine for analysing capitalism -- Chapter One. The dual nature of commodity-producers' labour as the starting point for a scientific analysis of capitalism -- Chapter Two. The clue to the dual nature of commodities and money -- Chapter Three. Marx's discovery of the economic law of the movement of capitalism and the dual nature of labour -- Chapter
Four. The production of surplus-value: two-fold methods -- Chapter Five. Two aspects of wages under capitalism -- Chapter Six. The dual nature of labour and the processes of capitalist reproduction -- Chapter Seven. The methodological importance of the dual-nature-of-labour doctrine for analysing the economy of imperialism -- Chapter Eight. What Marx's dual-nature-of-labour doctrine signifies for a critique of present-day bourgeois political economy

Part Two: The dual nature of labour and the political economy of socialism: methodological aspect -- Chapter Nine. The logic of Marx's Capital and the methodology of the political economy of socialism -- Chapter Ten. The importance of the dual-nature-of-labour doctrine for analysing the socialist economy -- Chapter Eleven. The category of socialist labour: its dual nature -- Chapter Twelve. The dual nature of directly social labour and some aspects of socialist reproduction -- Chapter Thirteen. The socialist way of life as an economic phenomenon and its two-fold structure

"This is a book on the methodology of economic analysis, a key problem of political economy. It is an examination of the methodological role of Karl Marx’s doctrine of the dual nature, or two-fold character, of labour, whose importance for the development of economic science it is hard to exaggerate. William Petty, Adam Smith and David Ricardo, the great English economists of the 18th to early 19th century, already had an inkling that labour was the basis of all economic phenomena and that it had a complex structure which left its mark on the structure of all economic phenomena and processes, but the scientific theory of the dual nature of the labour performed by commodity producers was first worked out by Karl Marx in London in the 1850s and 1860s, when he demonstrated its paramount methodological role and applied it to his scientific analysis of the capitalist commodity production." -- From the Internet

English translation of the revised Russian text