Charles:
> Interesting that the man himself, not Engels, uses the terms "simply
> produce"
Actually, he doesn't. In the original German, he says:
"Es genügt daher nicht länger, daß er überhaupt produziert."
Which is more accurately rendered as "It no longer suffices, therefore, that he should produce _at all_." (überhaupt = at all)
So "simply" here is just the looseness of Aveling's translation.
The actual German phrase for the mythical "simple commodity production" would be "einfache Warenproduktion."
But even if this wasn't the case, it's still silly to comb through _Capital_ looking for instances of the words "simple" and "historical" and then regarding that as evidence that Marx promoted the notion of simple commodity production. Those are rather common words.
Weak stuff, Charles.