1. 7. E.P. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays, (Monthly Review Press, New York) 1978, p. 153.
2. 13. The failure to understand the role of demand as a passive constraint in value formation leads to an overly productivist and technological conception of the labour theory of value. This conception which is characteristic of Neo-Ricardianism is basically wrong. Uno and Sekine fully grasp the role of demand in value formation, but they are not the only ones who do so. For example, see Rosdolsky, The Making of Marx's Capital, (London, Pluto Press, 1977), pp. 88–95.