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Marx's Grundrisse: Footnotes
<"53">53. The original text has 'personifications', evidently referring back to 'conditions'.
<"55">55. Having themselves become -- having themselves undergone the process of becoming.
<"56">56. On 22 February 1858, Marx wrote to Lassalle that he was planning three works: (1) a critique of the economic categories or the system of bourgeois economy critically presented, (2) a critique and history of political economy and socialism, and (3) a short historical sketch of the development of economic relations or categories (Marx-Engels Selected Correspondence, Moscow n.d., p. 125). Marx referred here to the third work, which he never produced in a completed form. Pages 459-514 of the present edition would no doubt have formed part of it.
<"57">57. Do ut facias: I give that you may do; facio ut des: I do that you may give; do ut des: I give that you may give. (Roman law.)
<"58">58. That is, with the free workers in manufactures (hand crafts).
<"59">59. Steuart, An Inquiry, Vol. I, p. 40.
<"60">60. Marx did not in fact mention this in the Chapter on Money but rather in the Chapter on Capital.
<"61">61. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Vol. I, pp. 104-5.
<"62">62. State property.
<"63">63. The word Stamm here refers broadly to any extended kinship grouping; e.g. clan, tribe, gens, etc.
<"64">64. Geschlechter may also refer to the sexes, linguistic groups, generations, etc. It is not entirely certain which of these distinctions Marx had foremost in mind here.
<"65">65. This is one possible reconstruction of the sentence beginning 'The commune,' which has a number of grammatical loose ends in the original. Two other possible variants are presented in Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations, tr. J. Cohen, London, 1964, p. 73.
<"66">66. Craftsmen, workers
<"67">67. Georg Niebuhr, Römische Geschichte. Erster Theil. Zweyte, völlig umgearbeitete, Ausgabe, Berlin, 1827, p. 245.
<"68">68. The property of the quirites, ie. the Romans.
<"69">69. 'No Roman citizen was permitted to earn a livelihood as a tradesman or artisan Dionysius of Halicarnassus.' Roman Antiquities, Bk IV, Ch. 25).
<"70">70. The passages in pointed brackets, on pp.477-8, are taken from Niebuhrs Römische Geschichte. Erster Theil, and in this order: (1) p. 148; (2) pp. 435-6; (3) pp. 614-15 and footnotes 1224 and 1225; (4) pp. 317-18; (5) pp. 326-35.
<"1">1. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, Vol. V, 21, lines 10-13; Vol. VI, 1, lines 3-7; Vol. VI, 2, lines 7-10.
<"2">2. P.-J. Proudhon, Système des contradictions économiques, Vol. II, p. 265.
<"3">3. Latin plural of iugerum, a Roman measure of land.
<"4">4. Political animal; literally, city-dweller.