A materialist development of some recent contributions to the labour theory of value
重新解读并肯定了《资本论》的开篇论证，回答为何劳动是价值实体这一根本问题，融合现实主义与辩证法两条哲学线索，发展了伊里延科夫的唯物主义和辩证法哲学，深化了本·法恩开创的价值理论路径。
The paper offers a novel interpretation and affirmation of the opening arguments of Capital, answering the fundamental but neglected question of why labour is the substance of value. Marx's arguments require that two philosophical threads, often separated in the literature on value, be woven together. The argument that value is the intrinsic ‘content’ making commodities exchangeable employs the thread of realism. The argument that abstract labour is the emergent ‘social substance’ of value employs the thread of dialectics. This interpretation develops the materialist and dialectical philosophy of E.V. Ilyenkov and deepens the approach to value theory initiated by Ben Fine.