MARXIAN ECONOMICS Let's Learn Marxism (part3 ) Marx's Economic Accomplishments Marx stands in the same relation to his predecessors in the theory of surplus-value as Lavoisier stood to Priestly and Scheele. The existence of that part of the value of products which we now call surplus-value had been ascertained long before Marx. It has also been stated with more or less precision what it consisted of, namely, the product of the labour for which its appropriator had not given any equivalent. But one did not get any further. Some- the classical bourgeois economists- investigated at most the proportion in which the product of labour was divided between the labourer and the owner of the means...