Critique of political economy

Iñigo Carrera, J. (1995a). From Simple Commodities to Capital-Commodities: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production. Presented at 21st Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Mini-Conference of the International Working Group in Value Theory, New York City.

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ABSTRACT The social specificity of commodities, their value-form, has its simplest determination in that the abstract labour materialised in them is represented as their capacity to relate among themselves in exchange, thus socially relating their producers. This fetishist social relation necessarily develops into a material production that has the valorization of value as its immediate … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (1997). De la simple mercancía a la mercancía-capital: La transformación de los valores en precios de producción [From Simple Commodities to Capital-Commodities: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production]. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT La especificidad social de las mercancías, su forma de valor, tiene como su determinación más simple el que el trabajo abstracto materializado en ellas es representado como la capacidad de éstas para relacionarse entre sí en el cambio, y con ello relacionar a sus productores. Esta relación social fetichizada se desarrolla necesariamente en una … Read more

Starosta, G. (2011). Machinery, productive subjectivity and the limits to capitalism in Capital and the Grundrisse. Science & society, 75(1), 42–58.

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ABSTRACT This paper proposes a reading of Marx’s exposition of the forms of the real subsumption of labour to capital — in particular, the system of machinery of large-scale industry — as constituting the dialectical presentation of the determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. KEYWORDS: Real subsumption; System of machinery; Revolutionary subjectivity DOWNLOAD PDF

Starosta, G. (2011). On Value and Abstract Labour: A Reply to Werner Bonefeld. (in collaboration with Kicillof, A.) Capital & Class, 2(35), 295–305.

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ABSTRACT This article offers a reply to Werner Bonefeld’s recent contribution to the debate on value and abstract labour, in which he critically engages with our previous articles dealing with these questions. We argue that Bonefeld’s criticisms are not simply based on disagreements over these controversial issues, but also on a misunderstanding of our stance … Read more

Starosta, G. (2012a). Cognitive commodities and the value-form. Science & Society, 76(3), 365-392.

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ABSTRACT One of the central claims of the “post-workerist” Cognitive Capitalism approach is that the specific ontology of cognitive commodities (costless reproducibility, indivisibility, non-rivalry, etc.) contributes to the obsolescence of the Marxian “law of value” in contemporary capitalism. Although that claim is usually presented as grounded on self-evident and unproblematic facts and implications of the … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2012a). Acerca del carácter de la relación base económica – superestructura política y jurídica: la oposición entre la representación lógica y la reproducción dialéctica [On the nature of the relation between the economic base and political and legal superstructure: the opposition between the logical representation and the dialectical reproduction]. En G. Caligaris & A. Fitzsimons (Eds.), Relaciones económicas y políticas. Aportes para el estudio de su unidad con base en la obra de Karl Marx (pp. 8–19). Buenos Aires: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT La  teoría marxista enfrenta la síntesis hecha por Marx de la relación entre la  base económica y la superestructura jurídica y política como un “texto a interpretar”. Recurre, entonces,  a la representación lógica, concibiendo a la base y la superestructura como dos  existencias que deben ponerse en relación exterior. Existen tres concepciones dominantes al … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2010). La acción voluntaria de la libre subjetividad, o sea la forma concreta con que el ser social históricamente determinado realiza su necesidad [The voluntary action of free subjectivity, that is, the concrete form in which the historically determined social being realises its necessity]. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Iñigo Carrera respond to D’Alessandro y Kejsefman (2009) “Hacer o qué hacer, esa es la cuestión. De la teoría a la acción política” DOWNLOAD PDF (IN SPANISH)

Starosta, G. (2013). The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital. En R. Bellofiore, G. Starosta, & P. D. Thomas (Eds.), In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (pp. 233–264). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT Guido Starosta’s chapter, ‘The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital’, argues that Marx’s exposition of the forms of the real subsumption of labour to capital – in particular, the system of machinery of large-scale industry – constitutes the dialectical presentation of the determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Starosta … Read more

Caligaris, G. (2014). Dos debates en torno a la renta de la tierra y sus implicancias para el análisis de la acumulación de capital en la Argentina [Two debates on ground rent and its consequences for the analysis of capital accumulation in Argentina]. Razón y Revolución, (27), 63–83.

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ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct two significant debates on Marx’s explanation of ground-rent. The first debate concerns the source of surplus-value that constitutes ground-rent and is linked to the problem of the international flow of surplus-value between countries. The second discussion deals with the nature of differential rent II and is … Read more