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Marx’ work

available

in new translations

‘ Theories of Surplus Value,” by
Karl Marx. Price 50c (Paperback).
are at Péople’s Co-op Book
ore.

red letter day has arrived

for all English readers of
Karl Marx. Lawrence and Wish-
art have published the first vol-
ume of the first English edition
of ‘‘Theories of Surplus Value’?
+e.the major work Marx wrote in
Continuation of ‘‘Capital.’’

Marx left behind him an enor-
mous mass of manuscripts when
he died...for the second and
third volumes of Capital, and for
three volumes of Theories of
Surplus Value, too.

The publication of Capital was
Completed by Marx’s faithful
friend, Engels. But Engels, too,
died before he could get down to
Theories of Surplus Value.

These manuscripts were taken
on by Karl Kautsky, then one of
2 © young hopefuls of Marxism

ut later a renegade, who edited
the first German edition.

Kautsky took many liberties
With the text. He altered its or-
der, and he also toned down some
-Of Marx? criticisms of bourgeois
€conomics.

The edition on which the pres-
a English translation is based

aS recently compiled by the

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Karl Marx

Marxism-Leninism Institute in
Moscow, in complete conformity
with Marx’ own manuscripts.

So what we now have is not
Marx-and-water, but Marx.

It isn’t easy reading. In fact,
it?s very difficult. But it is also
very enlightening, and very much
to the point today. The great
question discussed is: Where do.
capitalist profits come from?

Marx showed they come from
exploiting the labor of the working
class. In the first volume, now
published in English, he goes into
what are usually called the ‘‘clas-
sical’’ theories of political econ-
omy.

He sees in them the merit of
having recognized that profits are
not made just by buying cheap
and selling dear, but have their
origin in the process of produc-
tion.

BOOKS

People, often ask, even today,
how could we possibly carry on
without capitalists? Don’t these
gentry perform an essential ser=-
vice?

They should read the central
chapter of this volume, in which
Marx discusses Adam Smith who
saw profits as proper deductions
from the total revenues produced
by labor, in payment to the own-
ers of land and capital, without
whom production would not be
possible.

This first volume also discus-
ses theories about agriculture
and land ownership, and the pro-
blem, debated by Adam Smith, of
the correct definition of ‘‘pro-
ductive’? as contrasted to ‘‘un-
productive’’ labor.

Here are nearly 500 pages of
tough but rewarding reading...
and translation of the two remain-
ing volumes is proceeding.

—Maurice Cornforth

Off The Cuff

ce New. Westminster,
sae - noticed the PT has not
ae i Canadian Nazi and other
a Parties much space this
a year. The Star Weekly a
Bene = did cover its growth,
a ne headquarters and its
Geans 5,000 members across
a » With a person named
ethg in B.C. as one of the
es China, that article by Bert
‘ nies very interesting. I
ae evore are anticipated—
hig =o written a pamphlet on
4 i ence there, and is it
Y for circulation?
= rae McEwen, it would
nN book q reprint all his articles
ign orm, to sell and raise
hare Wards the Maintenance
as os + We should have done
- Ol Bill Bennett ,
aio if there are any old
T otter: . dvocates around, that
This elped to fold, when my
nae Writer, Hal Griffin, was
oe been asked for my com-
ft oe the PT. It has a wealth
Peciali edge and education, ex-
tleles y William Kashtan’s ar-
ae I wish now that I had
all out & scrap book to cut them
to save,
Cea respecting Marxist
Up naka am somewhat mixed
internat; Ane nationalism and
the tonalism, (For example
anti- America

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its 4 40. think
Its Children ae Canada and

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heroes. TV, et
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“OPEN FORUM.

tory of Lincoln, Jessie James
and Matt Dillon. Our PT should
be able to devote a half page
to teach our children something
about our own heroes and the
people who built this country...

Small Details
A Friend, Haney, B.C. writes:

I and my family recently attended
a film showing of Hurricane Flora
damage done to Cuba, together
with a film of one of Premier
Castro’s visit and reception in
the USSR. It was advertised as a
fund-raising as well as an edu-
cational event, from which all
proceeds would go to assist the
Cuban _ people recuperate from
that terrible disaster.

We were happy to be associated
with this worthy effort and to
‘contribute what we could to its

success. One cannot but admire -

such a brave people who are
determined to overcome any and
all man-made and natural calam-
ities, “7

However sometimes small de-
tails have a very great influence
on results, In this case (the col-
lecting of funds to aid Cuba) we
wonder how the audience would
have responded to the appeal, had
the film been shown first, then
the collection, with Premier
Castro’s visit to the USSR ending
the program?

In my opinion there
doubt the audience would have
responded much more generous~
ly. Nevertheless we do feel that
all those people who are giving
so much of their time and effort

is no

to this and similar causes, de-:

serve a vote of thanks and ap-
preciation.

Soviet missile carriers in flight. The USSR Army and_nings of the rocketry system which is today protecting the
Navy will be celebrating their “day” on February 23. In peace of the world.

the article below, a Soviet writer traces the humble begin-

No.19 Sadovaya Spasskaya St.—
birthplace of sputniks, luniks

terrific blast shook the

building, pictures tumbled
from the walls of the flats up-
stairs and from the basement be-
low huge clouds of smoke poured
out.

Angry tenants dashed into the
yard shouting and swearing at the
unfortunate watchman. Then sud-
denly the yard emptied magically
as a mechanic from the basement
yelled: ‘Gasmasks on!”’

* * *

It was as well that the tenants
missed the grin on the mechan-
ic’s face. After all, the good
people of No. 19, Sadovaya Spas-
skaya Street, Moscow, had had
enough. to put up with that winter
of 1932.

Their rest had been disturbed
for months on end by the thunder-
ing and shaking of the machines
below.

The explosion was the last
straw. The tenants lodged com-
plaints in all possible quarters.

How many of them, still living
today, could hzye any idea of the
gigantic project which was being
launched beneath them - to bear
full fruit after a quarter of acen-
tury in the first Soviet space
flights and sputniks?

* * *

For it was there under the most
fantastic of conditions that the
first Soviet liquid propelled rock-
et engines were designed.

It was from No. 19 that during
the period of the First Five Year
Plan these rockets were taken
out: to be tested at the proving
grounds near Moscow... the be-
ginning of the trail that led tothe
mighty Baikonur rocketdrome

from which Gagarin and Valen-
tina took off into space.

The people working in that
basement belonged to a group
called GIRD, initial letters of the
Russian words ‘‘Group for the
Study of Jet Propulsion.’’

In those days the engineers had
to live very largely on their
dreams, for the resources to
back rocket research were meag=
re.

It became a joke that the let-
ters GIRD stood for ‘‘Grupa In-
zhenerov Rabotayushchikh Dar-
om’? (Group of Engineers Who
Work for Nothing).

SCIENCE

The head of the group, V. A.
Tsander, did two jobs. Days, he
worked as head of a scientific
insititute; evenings, he rushed
down to the damp basement with
his slowly growing band of en-
thusiasts.

Some were recruited through
their reading of books by Tsiol-
kovsky, Russian pioneer of the
idea of space flight. Some, after
talks with the head of GIRD.

As the work grew and the need
for other skills became pressing
GIRD workers brought in their
friends and friends of their
friends to build the team.

They cleared rubbish, washed
the basement walls, installed
lighting, set up machine tools,
tables, chairs.

When money ran short they
dipped into their own pockets.
They brought silverware from

home for soldering parts, tea-
spoons, Czarist coins, even cru-
cifixes which, in due course, went
up to heaven soldered into the
body of a rocket.

* * *

Their motto was Newton’s
Third Law, on which the motion
of a rocket is based - for every
action there is an equal and op-
posite reaction.

The greater the obstacles they
found the more energy they gene-
rated to overcome them.

At No. 19 they worked at an
ever increasing tempo - they had
their own five-year plan, likethe
rest of the country and awarded
their own certificates for excep-
tional work.

They celebrated two anniver-
saries of the October Revolution
and two May Days in that base-
ment and regularly issued their
newspaper, Raketa (Rocket).

Whatever the difficulties they
overcame them and in 1933 the
first rocket soared into the sky
over Moscow. 3

Thirteen years before, V. A.
Tsander had met Lenin at a con-
ference of Moscow inventors and
impressed him with his design
for a space vehicle, for a journey
to Mars.

‘¢And will you be the first to
fly??? asked Lenin,

**Yes,”? answered Tsander,
readily. So would any of the vis-
jionaries of No. 19 Sadovaya Spas-
skaya.

And thanks to their work the
first socialist country became
the first to enter space.

—A. Kolodny
(Br. Daily Worker)

Metro Centre offers comedy

orth Vancouver Community
N Players will present Wil-
liam Inge’s ‘‘Picnic’’ for Metro
Theatre Centre, Feb. 18 to 29
inclusive. Temporary home of
Metro is the Kitsilano Theatre
at 4th and Arbutus.

Metro, a cooperative of 15
community-based stage and art
groups, is making a gallant at-
tempt to keep its head above
water and encourage develop-
ment of local stage art while
providing a relatively high level
of dramatic and comedy fare for
the people of Greater Vancouver.

Described as a summer
romance, ‘‘Picnic’’ is under the
direction of Robert Read.

Flo Owens is a widow and
mother of Madge, a beautiful
young girl who is not too bright
intellectually and Millie, a 16-
year-old tom boy who is the
clever one in the family.

There is the usual rivalry here:
Millie envies Madge for being so
pretty and Madge shares the
same emotion due to Millie’s
cleverness,

Helen Potts, their next door
neighbor, tied down by an aged
invalid mother, has a pleasant
habit of taking in stray men who
are down on their luck, feeding

DRAMA

them and accepting repayment
for her goodness by having them
do odd jobs around the house and
garden,

Hal Carter is one of these.
He is a very handsome young
man and turns out to be acollege
chum of Alan Seymour, Madge’s
boyfriend. On meeting Madge,
they feel an immediate attraction
for each other.

Rosemary Sydney is a school
teacher, no longer young, and be-
ginning to doubt the pleasures of
being single. Her friend, Howard
Bevans, is a storekeeper in a
nearby community and they have
been friends for some time, but
Howard has no serious intentions
toward her.

It is Labor Day, the last long
weekend for the summer, and
everyone is busy preparing for
the annual community picnic.

It is against this background
that Inge’s comedy is set, as he
depicts the actions by his char-
acters on this particular week-
end.

* * *

Tickets are priced at $1.25,
$1.50, $1.75 and $2.50. Reserv-
ations are available by phoning
736-4828 or 736-9915 or at 2114
West 4th Ave., 12:30 p.m. to
5 p.m.

February 21, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9