The Puzzle of Marx’s Missing “Results”: A Tale of Two Theories
探究马克思为何在《资本论》第一卷出版时删去“直接生产过程的结果”草稿章节，认为这与他对早期草稿的修订有关，并指出马克思可能因历史分析与价值理论的不一致而弱化了历史论述。
A long-standing puzzle in the history of Marxian economic thought concerns Marx’s decision to omit the draft chapter titled “Results of the Immediate Process of Production” from the published version of volume 1 of Capital. A number of authors have explored this puzzle without satisfactorily resolving it. This article addresses the question by linking Marx’s omission to a larger set of revisions made to arguments he developed in earlier drafts of Capital. It identifies two distinct theoretical accounts of the phenomenon of surplus value in these drafts, based respectively on Marx’s historical analysis of developments in capitalist social relations and his treatment of the connection between commodity prices and values, and argues that Marx may have been driven to diminish and obscure his historical account in light of increasingly evident inconsistencies with his value-theoretic account. The argument concludes with a discussion of possible consequences of Marx’s decision for his theoretical legacy in the development of economic thought.