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Guevara, S. (2015). Los efectos de la política represiva de la dictadura militar sobre la acción obrera: un análisis de los conflictos en Mercedes Benz entre 1973 y 1983 [The effects of the repressive policies of the military dictatorship over the workers action: an analysis of the conflicts in Mercedes Benz between 1973 and 1983]. (en colaboración con Harari, I.) el@tina. Revista electrónica de estudios latinoamericanos, 13(50), 1-13

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ABSTRACT The article analyzes the union action taken by the workers of the automaker Mercedes Benz between 1973 and 1983. From the reconstruction of the conflicts led by the workers and the actions of repression made by the company and the State, we debate the nature of the working action under the dictatorship (continuity or … Read more

Grinberg, N., & Starosta, G. (2015). From global capital accumulation to varieties of centre-leftism in South America. En S. Spronk & J. R. Webber (Eds.), Crisis and Contradiction: Marxist Perspectives on Latin American in the Global Economy (pp. 236–272). Leiden: Brill

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ABSTRACT In the last decade there has been a broad shift to the left in South America. However, different types of political economy regimes can be discerned within this general common trend. There is currently a relatively widespread consensus that two different varieties of centre-left administrations are in office in the region. Mainstream analyses distinguish … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2015). Las Determinaciones Económicas De Los “Contratos Petroleros” En Argentina (1958-1963) [The economic determinations of the “oil contracts” in Argentina (1958- 1963)]. Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 15(2), 187–202

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ABSTRACT This article examines the oil production contracts in Argentina between 1958 and 1963. It investigates the material conditions of production, the forms of capital valorisation and the relationship between the oil sector and the rest of the economy. Based on some overlooked statistical sources, it shows that contractual production involved extraordinary profits steaming from … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2016a). Proceso de trabajo e internacionalización del capital: determinantes globales del “atraso” tecnológico de la industria automotriz argentina en las décadas de 1950 y 1960 [Labour process and internationalization of capital: global determinants of technolgical “backwardness” in the Argentine automotive industry in the 1950s and 1960s]. Trabajo y Sociedad, (26), 225–240.

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ABSTRACT This article explores the hypothesis that the low technological level of the Argentine automotive  industry (and other South American cases) emerged from the global dynamics of capital accumulation, challenging the institutional approach that favors ‘internal’ factors. Following a particular reading of the Marxian critique of political economy, it is argued that the ‘automation’ of the labor process … Read more

Cazón, F., Kennedy, D., & Lastra, F. (2016). Las condiciones de reproducción de fuerza de trabajo como forma de la especificidad de la acumulación de capital en Argentina: evidencias concretas desde mediados de los ’70 [Reproduction conditions of labour power as form of the specificity of capital accumulation in Argentina: concrete evidences since the 1970´s]. Trabajo y sociedad, (27), 305–327.

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ABSTRACT This article is framed in the debate regarding the relationship between the differentiation of labor power’s conditions of reproduction and the characteristics of the productive structure in Latin America. We analyze the evolution of this relationship in Argentina, by recognizing the specificity of this country in the global capital accumulation. Firstly, we describe the form in which the … 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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ABSTRACT 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 … Read more

Hirsch, D., & Rio, V. (2015). Teorías de la reproducción y teorías de la resistencia: una revisión del debate pedagógico desde la perspectiva materialista [Theories of reproduction and resistance: a review of the educational debate from the materialist perspective]. Foro de Educación, 13(18), 69–91.

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The question of whether school is a place for social transformation or not is a central issue to modern educational thought, particularly in the last decades of the twentieth century. «Theories of resistance» of the 80’s and 90’s aimed to show the transformative potential of schooling through the development of a critical pedagogy, in clear response to the so called «theories of reproduction», which in the 70›had denounced the role played by school in capitalism. This article aims to make a review of this discussion and, particularly, the antagonistic form in which it has been developed, from a materialist perspective. To that end, main classics of both group of theories will be analyzed identifying that, although they seem antagonist, they coincide on one central point: the belief that capitalist social relations are imposed externally to the subject, to a supposal free subjectivity. While «theories of reproduction» argue that such domination can only be faced through class struggle, which can only be given outside school, «theories of resistance» argue that struggle may be developedin the ideological sphere within schooling. The premise of this article is that such external imposition is an appearance product of the alienated character of our consciousness, and does not allow to analyze that social relations, far from being imposed to our free will, are developed by us to organize social work. To transcend these appearances, a process of recognition of the general determinations of education in capitalism will be developed, in order to enable us to overcome a binary logic between reproduction and transformation, and think social transformation as part of the process of social organization itself.

Keywords: Schooling; Capitalist society; Social change; Critical pedagogy; Materialism.

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Caligaris, G. (2016a). La historia de la controversia marxista sobre la determinación del trabajo complejo en la producción de valor [The history of Marxist controversy over the determination of complex labour in the production of value]. Critica Marxista, (43), 45–65.

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ABSTRACT The solution provided by Marx to the question of ‘complex work’ in the explanation of the commodities’ value has been the subject of much controversy. However, almost a century and a half of debate, neither Marxists nor critics of Marx have managed to agree on its meaning and, even worse, among Marxists there is … Read more

Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2017). Determinación actual e historia en la génesis del dinero. Una aproximación metodológica a la controversia sobre el carácter mercantil de la forma dineraria. En R. Escorcia Romo & M. L. Robles Báez (Eds.), Dinero y capital. Hacia una reconstrucción de la teoría del dinero de Marx (pp. 123–157). México: ITACA / UAM.

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ABSTRACT En este trabajo se discute la explicación de la naturaleza del dinero ofrecida por Marx desde un punto de vista metodológico. En particular, se examina la cuestión haciendo foco en el vínculo que tienen el desarrollo sistemático y el análisis histórico en la exposición dialéctica. Para ello, se toma como punto de partida el … Read more

Fitzsimons, A., & Starosta, G. (2018). Global capital, uneven development and national difference: Critical reflections on the specificity of accumulation in Latin America. Capital & Class, 42(1), 109-132.

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ABSTRACT A recent Special Issue in this journal devoted its pages to discuss the varied forms of capitalist development in different countries and regions across the globe. Specifically, the contributions offered a critical assessment of the hegemonic ‘neo-institutionalist’ approach to the study of national diversity of capitalism, with particular focus on the ‘varieties of capitalism’ … Read more