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Fitzsimons, A. y Guevara, S. (2019). Argentina en la industria automotriz global: una discusión acerca de la comparación internacional de la productividad del trabajo [Argentina in the global automotive industry: a discussion about the international comparison of labor productivity]. Cuadernos de Economía Crítica 10(5), 43-70

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ABSTRACT In a recent issue in this journal, Pinazo, Córdoba and Dinerstein (2017) raised a discussion about the forms of development of the automotive industry in Argentina. These authors portray an image of an automotive industry with globally standardized products and export-oriented dynamics, explained by high levels of labor productivity and low labor costs. In contrast, from … 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

Pérez Trento, N. (2019a). Dos décadas de conflicto en torno al uso propio de semillas de soja genéticamente modificada en Argentina: fases del enfrentamiento, acumulación de capital y actores sociales (1996-2018) [Two decades of conflict over seed saving of genetically modified soybeans in Argentina: conflict phases, capital accumulation, and social actors (1996-2018)]. Mundo Agrario, 43(20), pp. 1-21

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ABSTRACT In this paper we aim to analyze the content of the conflict that arose in Argentina over genetically modified soybeans, which involved a multiplicity of social actors. In fact, although the claim for the payment of royalties was led by Monsanto, the breeders made the same demands, allying with the firm. These pretensions would … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2018b). Sobre las apariencias e inversiones en los fundamentos de la teoría marxista de la dependencia [On appearances and inversions in the foundations of marxist dependency theory]. In Elías, A., Oyhantçabal Benelli, G., Alonso, R. (coord.) Uruguay y el continente en la cruz de los caminos. Enfoques de economía política (pp. 37-47). Montevideo: COFE, INESUR, Fundación Trabajo y Capital.

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RESUMEN [Realizado por los coordinadores del libro]: Este artículo, por el tipo de abordaje que realiza y su diálogo con otros autores, requiere algunas consideraciones preliminares. Su objetivo es el abordaje de un debate por demás relevante: el de las especificidades de las economías latinoamericanas, o dicho en otras palabras: qué tipo de capitalismo tenemos … Read more

Caligaris G. & Starosta, G. (2019). Revisiting the Marxist Skilled-Labour Debate. Historical Materialism, 27(1), 55–91.

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ABSTRACT This article offers an overview of Marx’s textual legacy on the subject of the multiplied value-positing powers of skilled labour, and undertakes a critical reconstruction of the history of the subsequent controversies over the so-called ‘skilled-labour problem’. Critical examination of the different Marxist responses to the objections put forward by critics shows that they … 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

Starosta, G. (2017b). Fetishism and Revolution in the Critique of Political Economy: Critical Reflections on some Contemporary Readings of Marx’s Capital. Continental Thought and Theory, 1 (4), 365-398

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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to examine a series of recent contributions to the reading of Marx’s Capital that stress its specific determination as a dialectical investigation of objectified or fetishised forms of social mediation in capitalist society: on the one hand, the so-called Neue Marx-Lektüre originated in Germany towards the end of … Read more

Starosta, G. (2017a). Fetichismo y revolución en la teoría marxista contemporánea: una evaluación crítica de la Neue Marx-Lektüre y el Marxismo Abierto en clave metodológica. [Fetishism and Revolution in contemporary Marxist theory: a critical methodological assessment of the Neue Marx-Lektüre and Open Marxism]. Izquierdas, 23, 162-190

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ABSTRACT This article examines a series of recent contributions to the reading of Capital that stress its determination as a dialectical investigation of fetishised forms of social mediation in capitalist society. Specifically, the article focuses on the Neue Marx-Lektüre and Open Marxism. The article argues that the limits of these perspectives become apparent when it comes to uncover the … Read more

Seiffer, T., & Rivas Castro, G. (2017). La política social como forma de reproducción de la especificidad histórica de la acumulación de capital en Argentina (2003-2016) [The social policy as form of the historical specificity of capital accumulation reproduction in Argentina (2003-2016)]. Estudios del trabajo, (54), 91–117.

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ABSTRACT The period of Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015) meant record growth in terms of spending on social policies. It was presented as one of the evidences of a change in the relationship between market and state. Macri’s government (2015-present), with its policy of adjustment, appears as its counterpart. The common explanatory element in the analyses lies … Read more

Perez Trento, N. (2017). El paro agrario de 2008 y la especificidad de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina. Revista de Economía Crítica, 23, 43-59

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ABSTRACT One of the most significant agrarian conflicts in Argentina unleashed in May 2008. In brief, the confronting subjects gathered into two groups, leaded by the agrarian organizations, on one hand, and the national administration, on the other. This paper analyzes the economical determinations borne in the political actions performed by these social actors in … Read more