The Logical Emergence of Banking Capital from the Circuit of Industrial Capital: A Modern Unoist Approach
introduction To explain commercial capital and banking capital, Marx began by discussing the transformation of commodity capital and money capital into commercial capital and money-dealing capital (Marx 1981: title of Part 4). His method was first to divide the circuit of industrial capital, G-W…P…W’-G’, into production and circulation. The capital in the circulation phase is called “merchant’s capital”. Then the merchant capital is divided into “Commercial capital” and “Money-dealing capital” (Marx 1981: 379). We can denote merchant capital as W’-G’-G-W, commercial capital as W’-G’, and money-dealing capital as G’-G. This method is, in terms of form, well balanced. However, Uno and the Unoists criticized it and argued that, methodologically, the emergence of specialized capital requires an explanation of how it can raise the profit rate by reducing circulation capital and costs. Behaviors for higher profit by individual capitals leads to the emergence of specialized capita...
