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Grinberg, N. (2016a). From Populist Developmentalism to Liberal Neodevelopmentalism: The Specificity and Historical Development of Brazilian Capital Accumulation. Critical Historical Studies, 3(1), 65–104.

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ABSTRACT This article analyzes the trajectory of Brazilian society between the time of populist developmentalism and the emergence of neodevelopmentalism. Challenging mainstream accounts, it argues that the various policy regimes consolidating throughout the period have been forms of realization of the autonomously regulated process of capital accumulation on a global scale. More concretely, it is … Read more

Starosta, G., & Caligaris, G. (2016). The Commodity Nature of Labor-Power. Science & Society, 80(3), 319–345.

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ABSTRACT Some recent Marxist contributions, among them the so-called New Solution to the “transformation problem,” call into question the idea of labor-power as a fully-fledged commodity. Yet, the rejection of the commodity nature of labor-power compromises Marx’s whole explanation of the origin of surplus-value on the basis of the exchange of equivalents. It can be … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2011a). De la crisis al apogeo de la representación: subjetividad política y acumulación de capital en Argentina. Ciencias Sociales, (79), 50–56

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ABSTRACT Del “que se vayan todos” a la Presidenta a ser reelecta con más del 50% de los votos media, sin duda, un cambio marcado respecto de las formas políticas que toma la acumulación de capital en Argentina. Pero, al mismo tiempo, ambas expresiones políticas no son sino dos momentos portadores de la unidad de … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2012b). El capital: determinación económica y subjetividad política [Capital: economical determination and political subjectivity]. Crítica Jurídica. Revista Latinoamericana de Política, Filosofía y Derecho, (34), 51–69.

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ABSTRACT Marx synthesises the relationship between the economic base and the political and juridical superstructure stating that the latter emerges from the former. The point is, then, to unfold the concrete form taken by this determination and, consequently, that of the determination of the consciousness with which free individuals govern their actions as organs of … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2014). From Miracle to Crisis and Back: The Political Economy of South Korean Long-Term Development. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 44(4), 711–734.

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ABSTRACT This article analyses the process of economic development and associated political transformations in South Korea since the mid-1960s. It claims that, as in the rest of East Asia, capital accumulation in South Korea has revolved around the production of specific industrial goods for world markets using the relatively cheap and highly disciplined local workforce … Read more

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

Guevara, S. (2014). Conflictos en la industria automotriz: expresiones del límite con el que choca la acumulación de capital en la Argentina [Conflicts in the automotive industry: samples of capital accumulation limits in Argentina]. Razón y Revolución, (28), 77-97.

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ABSTRACT The labor conflicts of 2014 is highlighting the impact of the Argentine capital accumulation process against its specified limit. Insufficient land rent and the impossibility of having the external debt as a compensation mechanism for the recovery of capital operating in Argentina, are turning all the pressure towards greater falling wages below the value … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2014a). The Historical Determination of the Capitalist Mode of Production and of the Working Class as the Revolutionary Subject. Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 42(4), 555–572

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ABSTRACT Prominent Marxist theoreticians conceive the working class as a revolutionary subject based on moral or ethical superiority, a natural will for freedom, self-valorization, the need to avoid barbarism, etc. From a materialist viewpoint, human history consists of the transformation of the material conditions of social life through labor. Capitalism is the historically specific development … Read more

Grinberg, N. (2015). On the Brazilian ground-rent appropriated by landowners. Revista de Economia Politica, 35(4), 799–824.

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ABSTRACT This paper presents a measurement of the portion of the Brazilian ground rent appropriated by agrarian landowners during 1955-2005 and assesses its importance relative to other forms of surplus value appropriated in the Brazilian economy. In pursuing this task, the paper also puts forward original estimations of several time-series that are crucial for the … Read more