Michael Heinrich’s book The Science of Value marks a second generation of a reading of Capital known as the “New Marx Reading,” which began in West Germany in the late 1960s in the context of the student movement. This “new” reading is now 60 years old, and M. Heinrich’s book over 30 years old. The following comments are to be understood as an immanent critique that seeks to confront this reading with its implications, and seeks to make explicit its consequences, ones which the author has drawn elsewhere and explained in greater detail. The comments mainly concern the fixation on commodity exchange and money as a means of exchange. The necessity of a unity of money and value, on the other hand, can be understood through the technique of measure and measurement; in this way the capitalist determination of this unity can also be understood.
