What is the position of Capital in economic theory? Is Marxism an extension of Ricardo's labor theory of value or does it rely on a "paradigm shift"? What constitutes the scientific nature of Marx's theory, and under what conditions can a modern interpretation of Marx be formulated?

In the manuscript at hand, Isaac Ilyich Rubin analyzes the central concepts of Marx's theory as the result of a structure of production relations, where money is not merely a means of barter/exchange but the element that constitutes the capitalist society.

The work of the Soviet theorist serves as a critical reference point for all contemporary interpretations of Marx's Capital, inaugurating a new understanding of Marx's work, scientific rather than historicist, and highlighting the concept of value form as a cornerstone of Marx's theory.