Critique of political economy

Starosta, G. (2010c). The Outsourcing of Manufacturing and the Rise of Giant Global Contractors: A Marxian Approach to Some Recent Transformations of Global Value Chains. New Political Economy, 15(4), 543–563.

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ABSTRACT This article aims to show that the Marxian ‘law of value’ can provide solid foundations for the comprehension of the constitution and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC). It offers an explanation of the social processes of ‘value creation and capture’ within a chain based on the system-wide motion of global capital accumulation. A … Read more

Starosta, G. (2010b). Marx studies in the Anglophone world. Fenomenologia e societa’, (3), 11–17.

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ABSTRACT Contemporary Marx scholarship in the Anglophone world revolves around the consolidation and refinement of certain themes and perspectives whose origins can be traced back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. These debates around Marx’s intellectual legacy have entailed both a methodological and a substantive re-examination of his major scientific work: Capital. This paper offers … Read more

Starosta, G. (2010a). Global commodity chains and the Marxian law of value. Antipode, 42(2), 433–465.

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ABSTRACT This paper develops a Marxian critique of the “global commodity chain” (GCC) paradigm. It is argued that this approach fails to provide an actual explanation of the phenomenon it sets about to investigate. Instead, it offers a typological description of the immediate manifestations of the determinations at stake. As a consequence, the GCC approach … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2006b). La superproducción general en la acumulación actual y la cuestión de la acción de la clase obrera como sujeto revolucionario. Razón y Revolución, (15), 193-208.

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ABSTRACT El artículo parte de analizar las dos principales determinaciones que le dan a la acumulación de capital su forma cíclica más general: los movimientos de la tasa general de ganancia según la evolución relativa de la productividad del trabajo y la composición orgánica del capital con el desarrollo de la producción de plusvalía relativa, … Read more

Starosta, G. (2007b). Value form and class struggle: A critique of the autonomist theory of value. (en colaboración con Kicillof, A.) Capital & Class, 31(2), 13–40.

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ABSTRACT This paper develops a critique of the ‘class struggle’ theory of value that emerged out of the autonomist Marxist tradition, arguing that although this theory has the merit of putting forward a production-centred, value-form approach, it eventually fails to grasp the determinations of value-producing labour. In particular, the notion of value as a mode of existence of the class struggle inverts … Read more

Starosta, G. (2007a). On Materiality and Social Form: A Political Critique of Rubin’s Value-Form Theory. (en colaboración con Kicillof, A.) Historical Materialism, 15(3), 9–43.

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ABSTRACT This paper critically examines I.I. Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value and argues that two different approaches to value theory can be found in that book: a more ‘production-centred’ value-form theory uneasily co-exists with a ‘circulationist’ perspective. This unresolved tension, the authors claim, reflects a more general theoretical shortcoming in Rubin’s work, namely, a problematic conceptualisation of … Read more

Starosta, G. (2008). The Commodity-Form and the Dialectical Method: On the Structure of Marx’s Exposition in Chapter 1 of Capital. Science & Society, 72(3), 295–318.

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ABSTRACT The last 10 or 15 years have witnessed a renewed interest in Marx’s dialectical method and its implications for value theory. However, most works have not sufficiently thematized the peculiar role of the phase of analysis in Marx’s dialectical investigation generally and in his presentation in particular. Furthermore, they have not paid sufficient attention to the specific form of the … Read more

Guevara, S. (2010b). Poulantzas y la determinación del Estado capitalista: una discusión a partir de la integración industrial en el Mercosur [Poulantzas and the determination of the capitalist state: a discussion based on industrial integration in Mercosur]. Espacios Públicos, 13(27), 113–134

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ABSTRACT In this paper we proposed a systematic discussion of Poulantzas’ study on capitalist State. From this discussion, we advanced in recognition of general determinations of the more concrete phenomenon, namely the development of the capitalist state as the nation-state from the perspective of the critique of political economy developed by Marx. The development continues … Read more

Iñigo, L. (2011). Acumulación y relación capital-trabajo: La reproducción deficiente de la fuerza de trabajo [Accumulation and capital‐labour relation. Deficient labour force reproduction (Western Quilmes, 2001)]. (en colaboración con Salvia, S.) Trabajo y sociedad, (17), 95–104.

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ABSTRACT From the mid-1970s and late 1990s, Argentina has undergone deep economic change, which can be described as a change in labour-capital relations of force. These changes boosted the development of the contradiction between working class productive abilities and the limitations to their realisation implied by capital accumulation process. This article aims at describing the … Read more