Value form

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2021), Conocer el capital hoy. Usar críticamente El Capital. Imago Mundi

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    Iñigo Carrera, Juan   Conocer el capital hoy. Usar críticamente El Capital. Volumen 1: La mercancía, o la conciencia libre como forma de la conciencia enajenada Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, 2021. ISBN: 978-950-793-368-4 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Introducción La cuestión Conocimiento y reconocimiento Parte I. La mercancía, o la conciencia libre como forma … Read more

Starosta, G., Caligaris, G., Fitzsimons, A. (2024). Value, Money and Capital. The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism. Routledge.

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Starosta, G., Caligaris, G., Fitzsimons, A. Value, Money and Capital. The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism. Routledge. 2024. ISBN: 9781032063669 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER 1. The determinations of value as historically-specific social form. Part I: materiality and social form of abstract labour Introduction‘Rubin’s dilemma’ and the Marxist debate on abstract labourSituating the … 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