[264]Ibid., p. 155.
[265]Ibid., p. 223.
[266]Schriften, vol. ii, p. 226.
[267]Ibid., p. 156.
[268]Schriften, vol. i, p. 40.
[269]Op. cit., vol. ii, p. 25.
[270]Schriften, vol. i, p. 250.
[271]Ibid., p. 295. Rodbertus reiterates during a lifetime the ideas he had evolved as early as 1842 in his Towards the Understanding of Our Politico-Economic Conditions. ‘Under present conditions, we have, however, gone so far as to consider not only the wage of labour part of the costs of the goods, but also rents and capital profits. We must therefore refute this opinion in detail. It has a twofold foundation: (a) a wrong conception of capital which counts the wage of labour as part of the capital just like materials and tools, while it is on the same level as rent and profit; (b) a confusion of the costs of the commodity and the advances of the entrepreneur or the costs of the enterprise’ (Towards the Understanding of Our Politico-Economic Conditions, Neubrandenburg & Friedland, G. Barnovitz, 1842, p. 14).
[272]Schriften, vol. i, p. 304. Just so already in Towards the Understanding of Our Politico-Economic Conditions, ‘We must distinguish between capital in its narrow or proper sense, and the fund of enterprise, or capital in a wider sense. The former comprises the actual reserves in tools and materials, the latter the fund necessary for running an enterprise under present conditions of division of labour. The former is capital absolutely necessary to production, and the latter achieves such relative necessity only by force of present conditions. Hence only the former is capital in the strict and proper meaning of the term; this alone is completely congruent with the concept of national capital’ (ibid., pp. 23-4).
[273]Schriften, vol. i, p. 292.