克里斯托弗.J.亚瑟认为,《资本论》所阐述的抽象劳动、社会必要劳动时间等都是高度抽象的概念。对于这些概念的研究应置于与资本的关系中。这些理论观点对理解马克思劳动价值论具有一定的启示意义。从本质上看,资本间的竞争旨在占有工人的剩余劳动,价值是资本主义生产方式下劳动的具体表现。 Christopher J. Arthur believes that abstract labor as set forth in Capital is a highly abstract notion of socially necessary working hours. Research on these concepts should be placed in relation to capital. These theoretical views have a certain enlightenment on the understanding of Marx’s labor theory of value. In essence, the competition among capitals aims to occupy the surplus labor of the workers, and the value is the concrete manifestation of labor under the capitalist mode of production.