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The foregoing chapters have examined the skeleton of Marx’s economics; the labour value and surplus value theory, the transformation of money into capital and the primitive accumulation, the general law of capitalist accumulation, the law of the falling rate of profit, and the law of the obligatory correspondence of production relations to the productive forces. As a result of all these studies I strongly feel the necessity of proving in a rigorous manner the fallacious character of Marxian dialectical philosophy itself originating from the Hegelian fallacy. The methodological stand based on this demonstration is, I believe, indispensable for a scientific, comprehensive reappraisal and a correct, historical evaluation of Marxian economics and Marxism in general on the one hand, and for an appropriate access to the contemporary problems concerning the two systems and those beyond them, on the other
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Kazuto Matsumura, Hegel no Ronrigaku (Logic of Hegel), Iwanami Shoten, 1959, p. 282.
Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy, University of California Press. 1954, pp. 8–9.
Lenin, C.W, vol. 38, Philosophical Notebooks, Foreign Language Publishing House, Moscow, 1961, p. 141.
Marx, Theory of Surplus-Value, vol. II, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1968, p. 513. Theorien über den Mehrwert, Teil 2, Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1959, S. 509.
Science of Logic, vol. I, p. 60. Wissenschaft der Logik, I, Werke 5, S. 44. This passage reminds us of the beginning sentences of ‘The gospel according to John’, New Testament: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … all things were made through him.’ ‘Word’ is in Greek ‘logos’ and Hegel himself quoted the first sentence of the gospel in Greek in his Philosophy of History (Hegel, Vorlesungen der Philosophie der Geschichte, Werke 12, 1970, S.401. Thus we know the definite affinity between Christianity and Hegel’s logic.
Marx, Kritik des Hegeischen Staatsrechts, Karl Marx-Friedrich Engels Werke, Bd. 1, Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1957, S. 292.
Also see my citation from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right on ‘the Diet’ (note 21), and Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, 5. 1. 217 ff (Cambridge Univ. Press edn, 1949, p. 67).
Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd edn, 1960. p. 64ff.
‘Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses’ (Lionel Robbins, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, London, Macmillan, 2nd edn, 1952, p. 16).
See, for instance, Myrdal, An International Economy — Problems and Prospects, 2nd printing in Tokyo, 1964, p. X, p. 336.
‘The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and essence of his age; he actualises his age’ (Hegel, Philosophy of Right, English transi, 1942, p. 295).
(Quoted by E.H. Carr, What is History?, Macmillan, 1962, p. 48.)
Werner Sombart, The Quintessence of Capitalism, English translation, 1915, p. 354. (Requoted from Carr, What is History? , p. 54.)
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Horie, T. (1991). Hegelian Fallacy in Marxian Philosophy: An Inquiry into the Roots of Ambiguity Mistaken for Profundity. In: Marx’s Capital and One Free World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11618-8_6
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