Marx’s critique of Hegel

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

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2003b). El desarrollo del método dialéctico por Marx [Marx´s development of the dialectical method]. Razón y Revolución, (11), 128-142.

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ABSTRACT Marx nunca escribió una metodología. Sin embargo, las bases de la misma pueden encontrarse intercaladas en distintas partes de su obra. Juan Iñigo Carrera, quien este año dictó por segunda vez el seminario El Método Dialéctico, organizado por RyR, se ocupa de reunir e interpretar algunos de estos fragmentos para reconstruir a partir de … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2011b). La dialéctica sobre sus pies, o la forma de la conciencia de la clase obrera como sujeto histórico [Dialectics on Its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject]. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT The paper argues that the need to place dialectics on its feet is not a matter of adapting Hegel’s logic to a materialist point of view, but is instead the necessity of transcending the historical character of logic itself. It starts by considering that Marx recognises consciousness as the way in which human subjects … Read more

Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2015). La crítica marxiana de la dialéctica hegeliana. De la reproducción ideal de un proceso ideal a la reproducción ideal de un proceso real [The marxian critique of the hegelian dialectic. From the ideal reproduction of an ideal process to the ideal reproduction of a real process]. Praxis Filosófica, (41), 81–112

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This article examines the connection between Hegel’s and Marx’s respective dialectical methods in the light of the recent Marxist debates on the subject matter. It argues that the development of the Marxian critique of political economy cannot uncritically appropriate the content or the form of Hegel’s dialectical method. More specifically, the article submits that there is a “rational kernel” in Hegel’s work, which can be found in his discovery of self-movement as the simplest form taken by the real. However, insofar as he takes a pure thought-form as point of departure, which, moreover, results from an act of absolute abstraction, the aforementioned “rational kernel” becomes expounded under a “mystical shell”. As a consequence, his dialectic remains external to the movement of the real concrete.

KEYWORDS: Dialectical method; Materialism; Idealism; Logic; Capital

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Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2014). Which “Rational Kernel”? Which “Mystical Shell”? A Contribution to the Debate on the Connection between Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s Capital. En T. Smith & F. Moseley (Eds.), Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic. A Reexamination (pp. 89–112). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT The chapter argues that in the Logic Hegel managed to discover the simplest form of existence of the real: the movement of affirmation through self-negation. As a consequence, he correctly presents the method of science as the systematic unfolding of the immanent life of the subject-matter. However, in so far as Hegel´s systematic dialectic … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2014b). Dialectics on Its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject. En T. Smith (Ed.), Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic (pp. 64–88). Leiden: Brill

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ABSTRACT Juan Iñigo Carrera’s chapter (‘Dialectics on its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject’) argues that the need to place dialectics on its feet is not a matter of adapting Hegel’s logic to a materialist point of view, but is instead the necessity of transcending the historical … Read more