Christopher J. Arthur.Negation of the Negation in Marx's Capital. RM 6(4):49-65 "Explicates the usage of the concept of ""negation of the negation"" in Karl Marx's account of the supersession of capitalism, and explores his obscure remark in this connection about the restoration of ""individual property."" Accounts by Friedrich Engels and Louis Althusser are considered and rejected. The solution offered displaces the historical dialectic with an appeal to systematic dialectic. It refers the argument of the conclusion of Capital back to the chapter on the transformation of surplus value into capital, in order to restructure the ""first negation"" as a ""virtual"" one, grounding the structure of the capital relation in its logical (rather than historical) preconditions. In examining the meaning Marx attributes to the change in property relations, and especially the concept of property in socialist society, evidence from his Grundrisse is adduced to explain it in terms of his concept of ""the social individual."" 18 References. AA"