Value form

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

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007d). El fetichismo de la mercancía bajo su forma de «teoría de la crisis del trabajo abstracto». Presented at Tercer Coloquio Internacional de Teoría Crítica y Marxismo Occidental “La crisis del trabajo abstracto”, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires – Revista Herramienta – Instituto Argentino para el Desarrollo Económico.

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ABSTRACT En El Capital Marx da el nombre de trabajo abstracto al gasto fisiológico de cuerpo humano aplicado a producir valores de uso, cualquiera sea su tipo. Se trata, por lo tanto, de una Condición natural para la vida humana cualquiera sea la modalidad social que rija a ésta. Pero, cuando se lo realiza de … Read more

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). 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. (2013a). Method: from the Grundrisse to Capital. En R. Bellofiore, G. Starosta, & P. D. Thomas (Eds.), In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (pp. 43–70). Leiden: Brill.

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ABSTRACT Juan Iñigo Carrera’s chapter, ‘Method: from the Grundrisse to Capital’, explores the development of Marx’s method, from the 1840s onwards. Iñigo Carrera argues that the Grundrisse constitute a step in the development of an original method: the reproduction of the concrete by means of thought, as opposed to its representation – a method which, … Read more