The Value of Marx. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

From: Capital & Class | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Moseley, Fred | Copyright information

Alfredo Saad Filho

London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 177

ISBN 0-415-23434-4 (hbk) [pounds sterling]45.00

Alfredo Saad Filho's book presents a new interpretation of Marx's theory of value (along the lines of the earlier work of Ben Fine), with the following distinctive characteristics:

1. it is based philosophically on EN. Ilyenkov's 'materialist dialectics';

2. it is interpreted as mainly a theory of surplus-value, rather than a t...

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