ABSTRACT
In March 1862, Marx abandoned Notebook V, at least on p. 211 of the manuscript, for on this page he quotes Time’s edition of 26 November 1862.1 Possibly the last part of Notebook V might have been continued in January 1863 when Marx started writing Notebook XIX – as we will see in Part Four, Chapter 11. In any case, in March, Marx began Notebook VI, which up to and including Notebook XV form half of the Manuscripts of 1861-63, and which bear the title ‘Theories of Surplus Value’, under the number ‘5’ (MECW. 30: 348),2 because point ‘4’ must have been either the comparison between absolute and surplus value or the problem of accumulation, according to prior plans.3
