THE THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION THE STRUCTURE OF "CAPITAL"〔I〕

I. The Method of " Capital "In the preface to the first edition of "Capital", Marx proclaimed, "it is the ultimate aim of this work, to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society')"."Modern society" in this context, is not the industrial capitalist society itself in England, in the middle of the nineteenth century, which he mentioned as an example of it, but it is, as he made clear in chapter 52, "Classes ", the last chapter of Bk.III in "Capital," the abstracted, pure capitalist society which consists only of the three big classes, namely, capitalists, landowners and labourers and from which other elements that obscure it have been removed."Modern society" which Marx meant in the above context was not modern society, as it was, in England in the middle of the nineteenth century, but the abstract and typical "modern society" in which only pure industrial capitalism is the most important among motive elements of society.. Therefore, the objection, that actual capitalism is far more complicated, is of no use.Feudalistic relations and