================= HES POSTING ================= I don't have enough time to check the necessary sources to reconstruct the conceptual history of "labour theory of value" but don't blame Kautsky or Lenin for inventing the very term. For example Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk used it in the first volume of Kapital und Kapitalzins (1884). Smith and Ricardo were the founders of the labour theory of value ("Urheber der Arbeitswerttheorie"). Aladar Madarasz <[log in to unmask]> ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]