Abstract
This thesis attempts to conduct a bibliographical research on the theory of the trinity formula in Karl Marx's “Capital”, and to reconstruct its uncompleted logic.
In the Chapter One, M. Rubel's recent research showed that he considered F. Engels had distorted the order in Marx's work and insisted that the distorted order could be recovered. I expounded in this thesis the reasons why F. Engels revised the order which had been directed by Marx himself. In this process of research, it is revealed that between 'fragments' and 'new writings' an important reorientation of Marx's perspective is involved. It is not limited to mere exposure of the absurdity of the 'trinity formula' which is an invulnerable belief in daily life of the capitalist society, but it is a leap to an explanation of the mechanism of its mysticism and perverted clarity-in-itself.
In the Chapter Two, I reconstructed the theory of the 'trinity formula', referring to the main stream of theme developed by M. Rubel's edition and the involvement of the reorientation of perspective suggested by F. Engels' version. In short, (1) criticism of the absurdity of the economic trinity consisting of “capital-interest, land-rent, labor-wages, ” (2) explanation of the real configuration in appropriation and distribution of wealth in the capitalist society, which is resulted by the key mechanism of Versachlichung (conversion of production relations into entities with estranged power), (3) vulgar economics' efforts and failure in dogmatization, (4) completion of mystification through the mechanism of Verdinglichung (conversion of social relations into mere things).
In this way, the capitalist society establishes itself with its perverted clarityin-itself in its dual construction of Versachlichung and Verdinglichung.
