The One-Sidedness of Capital

Contrary to Rosdolsky (and most analysts), Marx's proposed book on wage-labor was not incorporated into Capital. As a result, Capital does not develop an adequate totality, an organic whole, in which all presuppositions are results. The production of wage-labor, upon which the reproduction of capital depends, stands outside capital as a presupposition but not a result. With the logical development of the side of wage-labor, an adequate totality (capitalism as a whole) may be constructed which is characterized by "the worker's own need for development" as well as by capital's need for valorization-i.e., by two-sided class struggle.

Implications of the one-sidedness of Capital itself are exploredincluding the inadequacies which have produced proposals to abandon the concept of labor-power as a commodity.