Value form

Caligaris, G. (2021). Una reconstrucción del debate marxista sobre la fuente del plusvalor extra que apropian los capitales innovadores [A reconstruction of the Marxist debate on the source of extra surplus value appropriated by innovative capitals]. Ensayos de Economía, 31(59), 165-185.

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ABSTRACT: In this article the Marxist debate on the nature and source of the extra surplus value appropriated by capitals that introduce a technological innovation is reconstructed and presented. Until now, this controversy has always been treated as subsidiary to other debates. However, its reoccurrence and the evolution of the arguments – especially in the … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2024). From the negation of the materiality of abstract labor to the abstraction of the revolutionary subject’s free will. The case of Michael Heinrich. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Translation of Iñigo Carrera, J. (2021) Conocer el capital hoy. Usar críticamente “El Capital”, Vol. 1: ‘La mercancía, o la conciencia libre como forma de la conciencia enajenada’ [Knowing Capital Today, Using “Capital” Critically, Vol. 1: ‘The commodity, that is, free consciousness as the form of alienated consciousness’], Segunda edición, Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires; … Read more

Starosta, G. (2020). A forma-mercadoria e o método dialético. Estrutura de exposição de Marx no capítulo 1 de O Capital. [The commodity-form and the dialectical method. On the structure of Marx’s exposition in chapter 1 of Capital.] Revista Eleuthería, 5(08), 112–136

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ABSTRACT A methodologically-minded critical reading of Marx’s argument about the determinations of the value-form of the product of labor in the first chapter of Capital contributes to the growing literature on the dialectical structure of Marx’s critique of political economy by bringing out often-overlooked aspects of his argument. First, there is a crucial distinction between … Read more

Starosta, G. (2020). A forma-mercadoria e o método dialético. Estrutura de exposição de Marx no capítulo 1 de O Capital [The commodity-form and the dialectical method on the structure of Marx’s exposition in chapter 1 of Capital]. Revista Eleuthería, 5(08), 112–136.

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ABSTRACT A methodologically-minded critical reading of Marx’s argument about the determinations of the value-form of the product of labor in the first chapter of Capital contributes to the growing literature on the dialectical structure of Marx’s critique of political economy by bringing out often-overlooked aspects of his argument. First, there is a crucial distinction between … Read more

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. (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)

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

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