Abstract
This is a contribution to the precise formulation of the characteristics of the object of the critique of political economy. It is effected primarily through the drawing of historical, extentional and qualitative distinctions. Such a formulation is necessary for several reasons: first of all, it is a precondition to the development of concepts for finding the relationship between the 'economic' and the 'non-economic' in the capitalist mode of production; secondly, it is necessary for the development of historical matenalism, which must occur on the basis - and not, as is usually the case, irrespective - of the achievements of the critique of political econo my.
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