Critique of political economy

Starosta, G. (2019b). El significado del fetichismo de la mercancía en la secuencia «dialéctico-sistemática» en El Capital [The meaning of commodity fetichism in the «sistematic dialectic» sequence in Capital]. En O. Martínez (Ed.), Karl Marx desde América Latina. Dialéctica, política y teoría del valor (pp. 23-60). Lima, Perú: Ande / GISLAT.

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KEYWORDS: Commodity fetichism; Dialectical method; Subjectivity; Value form. DOWNLOAD PDF

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2019c). Crítica de la economía política, sujeto histórico y destrucción del capital [Critique of political economy, historical subject and capital destruction]. En O. Martínez (Ed.), Karl Marx desde América Latina. Dialéctica, política y teoría del valor (pp. 443-463). Lima, Perú: Ande / GISLAT.

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KEYWORDS: Marx; Critique of political economy; Historical subject; Conciousness. DOWNLOAD PDF

Caligaris, G. (2019). Distintas tasas de ganancia y tipos de capitales en la crítica de la economía política. Un enfoque alternativo [Different profit rates and types of capital in the Critique of Political Economy. An alternative approach]. En O. Martínez (Ed.), Karl Marx desde América Latina. Dialéctica, política y teoría del valor (pp. 391-416). Lima, Perú: Ande / GISLAT.

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ABSTRACT La idea de que existe una tendencia a la formación de una tasa de ganancia uniforme para todas las ramas de la producción social está en la base de la explicación marxiana de los precios. Sin embargo, la realidad concreta de toda economía nacional evidencia que existen distintas tasas de ganancia que se mantienen … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2019). Criterios de coherencia del método de medición de la capacidad relativa de las monedas nacionales para representar valor y consecuencias prácticas de desconocerlos. [Consistency criteria for the method of measuring the relative capacity of national currencies to represent value and the practical consequences of ignoring them.] Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT The paper presents the criteria for the consistency of the method of measuring the relative capacity of national currencies to represent value. It critiques the neoclassical conception prevailing in the specialized literature. KEYWORDS: Exchange rate; Overvaluation; Undervaluation; Value DOWNLOAD PDF (IN SPANISH)

Fitzsimons, A. y Starosta, G. (2019) ¿Una mercancía “como cualquier otra”? Reexaminando la determinación del valor de la fuerza de trabajo [A commodity “like all other commodities”? Re-examining the determination of the value of labour power]. Economia e Sociedade 28 (3), p. 665-687.

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ABSTRACT This article addresses the process of production of labour power with a view to re-examining Marx’s stance on the determination of the value of this ‘peculiar commodity’. In order to do so, the article critically reviews the main contributions which have called into question the Marxian analysis. It also offers an alternative argument that … 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

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

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

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2017). La reducción idealista del valor a la apariencia de su forma. Su concepción fundante por Isaak Rubin. Presentado en I Simposio Internacional de Estudios en la Crítica de la Economía Política. C3, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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ABSTRACT In the field of critical political economy, and in particular of Marxist political economy, the conception that abstract work constitutes a historically specific social form, proper only of the production of goods, has gained notable strength, until becoming dominant. The Essays on the Marxist theory of value of Isaak Rubin, are universally recognized as … Read more