ABSTRACT
In the second volume of Capital, Marx begins with an analysis of simple reproduction under pure capitalism, that is, under the economic system that exists when capitalism has subordinated to itself both industry and agriculture, when it has ousted all precapitalist forms and become not merely the dominant but in fact the sole form of production in society. Through his analysis of simple reproduction, which in real life can occur only as an exception, Marx elucidated the most important part of the problem, the equilibrium between the exchange of means of production from department I for means of consumption from department II. Of course, even in an analysis of reproduction of concrete capitalism we cannot take a single step without drawing on Marx's analysis of reproduction under pure capitalism. For the ultimate aim of the investigation remains a purely concrete analysis of the living, growing Soviet economy, with all the concrete facts and figures that relate to it.
