Dialectic method

Steimberg, R. (2020). El capital como sujeto y el carácter idealista de la dialéctica hegeliana [Capital as a subject and the idealistic character of the Hegelian dialectic]. Izquierdas, (49), 625–641.

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ABSTRACT The present paper takes as its object the reading that Riccardo Bellofiore makes of the link between Marx and Hegel. Bellofiore argues that Hegel’s idealism is due to expressing the real movement of capital, but attributing to the dialectic of the Absolute a circularity that capital lacks, since to achieve this condition it must … Read more

Starosta, G. (2017c). The Role and Place of ‘Commodity Fetishism’ in Marx’s Systematic-dialectical Exposition in Capital. Historical Materialism 25(3), 101-139.

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Abstract This article aims to contribute to the literature on Marx’s systematic-dialectical method through a critical reading and discussion of the significance and presentational ‘architecture’ of the section on commodity fetishism in the dialectical sequence of form-determinations in Capital. In order to undertake this task, the paper firstly explores the content and expositional structure of … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2019). On Fred Moseley’s ‘Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the End of the “Transformation Problem”’. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Moseley confronts the ‘transformation problem’ from a methodological conception based on interpreting ‘Capital’ as a logical representation composed by a macro-theory concerning total social capital, and a micro-theory concerning the distribution of total surplus-value among individual capitals. This approach mutilates the dialectical development of the organic unity between social capital and individual capitals. Moseley … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2018b). Revisiting the Miliband-Poulantzas debate: How to get to know the capitalist state? Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social, 18(2).

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ABSTRACT Tis paper presents a critical analysis of the 1970ss famous debate between Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas around the capitalist state focusing on the method performed by both authors to address the problem. Te main argument is that the central problems in which both positions relapsed, as well as the fate of the debate, … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2018). Revisiting the Marxist debate over the ‘breakdown’ of capitalism. A methodological critique. Izquierdas, 39, 182-208.

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ABSTRACT This paper offers a critical reconstruction of the Marxist controversy over the ‘breakdown of capitalism’ developed between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the decade of 1930. In particular, it focuses on how each position in debate conceived the connection between capitalist economic development and the revolutionary action of the working class. … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2014c). Being a Marxist or objectively recognizing one’s own political subjectivity through the dialectical method discovered by Marx. Presented at VII Jornadas de Economía Crítica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

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ABSTRACT Marxism is marked by the debate between “true Marxism” and “false Marxism”. This debate arises from the interpretative character of Marxism and, therefore, the impossibility of its objective resolution is inherent to it. But the real question, from the point of view of the political action of the working class capable of surpassing the … Read more