从这个观点出发，流通过程不是生产过程的辩证对立面，不是流通过程本身，而是表现生产过程和流通过程本身的统一的范畴。这就是马克思所说的资本的“总过程”或“总循环”，后来在《资本论》第三卷中成为资本的“总”或“总”生产过程(与直接生产过程相对)。4这个过程的主体不仅仅是“资本”，更确切地说，是马克思所说的“社会总资本”(gesellschaftlichen gesamtcapitalen)，这个概念必须被理解为“一般资本”(资本论)的继承者，但同时，它并没有使“一般资本”的概念无效。⁵我们现在关心的是总社会资本及其变形——它的三个循环或循环(Kreislauf)，因为这使我们可以结束这一论题。
必须强调的是，《资本论》第二卷的开头几章，特别是第4章——“电路的三个数字”一—等于《资本论》第一卷第一章中价值形式系统发展的系统性。此外，第二卷中的这些章节提供了第一卷中对应部分所不能提供的东西:对资本本身的各种形式的系统呈现，或者换句话说，对资本作为自我扩张的价值确立之后的资本的系统呈现。6它们第一次提出了一个框架，在这个框架中，资本可以作为思维历史和历史时间的条件而系统化。与马克思在《资本论》第一卷中对生产过程的分析(尤其是他对原始积累的公开暴力的描述)形成鲜明对比的是，《资本论》第二卷的这些开头章节在更高的抽象层次上呈现了“资本”:例如，减少工作日长度的斗争并没有(至少没有明确地)出现在这些章节中。7然而，这并没有削弱他们对我们理解历史和历史时间的思考性贡献。在
4 Hence insofar as there is some kind of logic'. (apart from Engels’ s editorial haņd) that structures the three volumes of Capital, it is not the dialectic Volume 1 + Volume 2 = Volume 3’ , as is occasionally assumed, but rather a logic wherein the immediate production-process (Volume 1) is subsumed by the circulation-process, broadly construed (Volume 2), which is thereafter actualised by, the total-process of capitalist production (Volume 3). This is the sense in which the aim of Volume 3 is to 'discover aņd present the concrete forms which grow out of the process of capital's movement considere as a, whole.' Marx, Capital 3, 117. That is, Volume 3 actualises -via categories such as profit’ and price’ -what Volume 2 has already established, albeit at a high level of abstraction.
See Chapter 4, footnote 9. From the second volume of Capital on, the ctegories of abstract labour' and value’ can be understood from the standpoint of total social capital'.
6 This thesis accordingly shares Tombazos’ s enthusiasm for the opening chapters of the second volume of Capital, particularly Chapter 4. See Tombazos, Time in Marx, 2, 4, 124.
7 Marx is well aware of this when, for instance, he states that capital, as self-valorising value, does not just comprise class relations, a definite social character that depends on the existence of labour as wage-labour. It is a movement, a circulatory-process through different stages, which itself in turn includes three different forms of the circulatory-process. Hence it can only be grasped as a movement, and not as a static thing. Marx, Capital 2, 185.
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