| Marx's labor theory of value is the foundation of the Marxist economy in the narrow views. It is the arm of theory to explain the rule and the developmental trend of the commodity economy and the capitalist economy. Marxist economy is the developing science. So in the new historical condition, we should deepen the understanding of the labor and the labor theory of value in the new practice. Is Marx's labor theory of value applied to the socialist society? What's more, how do we understand "labor" and "value" in the socialist society. These problems are the focus of economic attention. Meanwhile, these are the problems that the dissertation tries to resolve.The dissertation applies Marx's basic methods- materialist dialectics ,combining historical analysis with logical analysis ,linking the normative analysis with positive analysis , to investigate the process of the formation of Marx's labor theory of value , to try hard to understand the scientific connotation of Marx's labor theory of value accurately and completely, to review the controversy of the external and internal scholars on the labor theory of value , to expatiate the applicability and understanding of Marx's labor theory of value in our socialist society .This dissertation has five parts:The fist part investigates the formation process of Marx's labor theory of value. In the 1940's Marx studied the "labor" and "value" on the basis of the historical materialism from the beginning of his economic study. That is just the essential difference between Marx's and the capitalist classical economy's labor theory of value. Marx explained the "value" as "the rule of the property" firstly. He analyzed alienated labor and considered the "value" as the existent form of bourgeois and the abstract relation of property . Labor is the lively foundation of property, but this property is alienated .In the capitalist productive mode, Men produce commodities notfor use but just for exchange. The 1950's is the "prime" of Marx's economic study in his life. During this time, Marx completed his great system info of "Six Volume", <> and established the position of commodity and value. Meanwhile, his labor theory of value was becoming mature. So it laid the foundation of the application of this theory into <> .The second part expatiates the labor theory of value in the <> .This dissertation explains the labor theory of value by five parts, namely use value and value rule of value the form of value the independence of value Firstly , this value in <> is not the "value" in the other society ( such as the primitive society, the socialist society, the communist society ) but the "commodity value ". Secondly, the "commodity value " is used firstly to explain the special kind of social nature and its manifestation form of the private labor. Thirdly, the value of commodity is not "the direct labor of society "or "liquid labor " but the equal and general labor's "coagulating" or "incarnating" in the commodity . "Value" embodies the social equality of various concrete and useful labors that produce commodity.The third part expounds the external scholars' controversy on the labor theory of value from the 1950's to the 1960's. It comprises German and Italian vulgar economists' arguments against the labor theory of value, the marginal utility school and the second international old revisionist Bernstein's opposition to the labor theory of value, the contemporary capitalist economists' contradiction. In general, the controversy of external scholars on the labor theory of value is on the foundation of wrong explanation of labor theory of value. The labor theory of value is not a specialized theory, which explains the determination of the exchange value or price, or a specialized theory of "income allotment", but used firstly to explain the special kind of social nature and its manifestation form of the private labor.The forth part reviews the internal economist's four times controversy on the labor theory... |
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