Abstract

Marx's writing, "the 1844 book" notebook Ⅱ, Ⅲ had already read the writings of Ricardo and Mill, and most likely do a summary of his "Mill Summary" in the attempt to clarify the private property of foreign currency into the interaction between people of alienation. "James Mill" and notebook Ⅰ continuity on the subject, and its level is higher than notebook Ⅰ, can be based on "Mill Summary" speculation in the notebook Ⅱ "missing" content, and the "Mill Summary" as part of it. Marx had read and, probably, summarized the works written by Ricardo and Mill by the time he was writing the second and the third manuscripts of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscript of 1844. In Comments on James Mill, Marx attempts to elucidate that the alienation of private property into money results in the estranged form of social intercourse among people. There is continuity between Comments on James Mill and First Manuscript insofar as the major idea is concerned and it was better written than the Firs Manuscript. Hence, we can rely on Comments on James Mill to shed light upon the missing part in second Manuscript and take Comments James Mill as a constitutive part