ABSTRACT
Capitalist society is based on historically unique relations of production and these social relations manifest themselves in unique forms. Even those that are older than capitalism, money and commodities, for example, take on new and qualitatively different significance in capitalist society. All phenomena I have treated to this point, value, profit, money, credit, competition and fixed means of production, present themselves as part of the circulation of capital. These phenomena interact to generate the most grotesque manifestation of the historical uniqueness of capitalism, economic crises.
