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1. See Tuchscheerer 1980, pp. 222–45; Vygodskij 1967, pp. 10–35, and 1975a; and Jahn
and Nietzold 1978, pp. 149–52; see also Jahn and Noske 1979, pp. 21–2.
2. He studied, for example, different monetarist schools at the beginning of the 1850s.
The literature on this subject is mainly in German; see the contributions in Arbeitsblät-
ter 1979a and 1979b.
3. ‘Mode of research’ [Forschungsweise] and ‘mode of exposition’ [Darstellungsweise]
are the expressions used by Marx to define his own method in the afterword to the sec-
ond German edition of Capital Volume I (in Fowkes’s translation: ‘method of inquiry’ and
‘method of presentation’) (Marx 1993, p. 102). The category ‘exposition’ (or ‘presentation’)
is a crucial one; in fact, the German term ‘darstellen’ does not simply regard the way
given results are presented, but the way the theory itself develops through its different
levels of abstraction toward totality. It is in fact explicit that Marx is referring to Hegel’s
Darstellung when he uses this word. The process of exposition posits results.
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4. Vygodskij 1967, p. 91, Jahn and Nietzold 1978, p. 158, Skambraks 1978, pp. 32–3 and
Müller 1983, pp. 9–13.
5. On the development of Marx’s theory in the various editions of Volume I, see:
Hecker, Jungnickel and Vollgraf 1989, Hecker 1987, Jungnickel 1989, Lietz 1987a and
1987b; Schkedow 1987; Schwarz 1987; Henschel, Krause and Militz 1989; Fineschi 2001,
Appendix C, and 2008, Chapter One.
6. See Hecker 2009 and Roth 2009.
7. See Bellofiore and Fineschi 2009.
8. See Reichelt 1973 and Backhaus 1997. For a summary of these debates, see Fineschi
2009b and Elbe 2008.
9. I shall not deal here with these positions. For an introduction to the historical
impact and the theoretical limit of workerism, see Bellofiore and Tomba 2008.