Determinations of free conscious

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007d). La détermination historique du mode de production capitaliste et de la classe ouvrière comme sujet révolutionnaire face à la fragmentation actuelle de la subjectivité productive de la force de travail. Presentado en el Congrès Marx International V, Université de Paris-X Nanterre.

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ABSTRACT Le capitalisme est le développement de la subjectivité humaine en transformant les puissances productives du travail libre individuel en ceux du travail social consciemment organisé par le travailleur collectif qui l´effectue comme travail privé. La classe ouvrière fait face à son produit propre, la capacité pour organiser scientifiquement la production, comme une puissance aliénée. … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007c). Scientific method: logical representation vis à vis dialectical reproduction (i.e., the consciousness dominated by alienation for believing itself an abstractly free one vis à vis the consciousness that advances in its freedom by being aware of its alienation). Presentado en el Congrès Marx International V, Université de Paris-X Nanterre.

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ABSTRACT Even Marxists conceive logical representation as the natural form of scientific method. According to it, the interpretation of reality constitutes the absolute limit of objective knowledge. Freedom thus seems to consist in free interpretation. Nevertheless freedom is not a natural determination but a social relation inherent in the capitalist mode of production. Within this … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (1992). Capital’s Development into Conscious Revolutionary Action. Presentado en la International Conference on Marxism in the New World Order – Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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ABSTRACT The construction of the community of the freely, i.e., consciously, associated individuals is the most genuine critique of the present social organisation. Does critical scientific theory, the scientific theory that sees itself as the direct expression of free consciousness vis à vis the general alienation of consciousness in capitalism, appears today living up to … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2011b). La dialéctica sobre sus pies, o la forma de la conciencia de la clase obrera como sujeto histórico [Dialectics on Its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject]. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT The paper argues that the need to place dialectics on its feet is not a matter of adapting Hegel’s logic to a materialist point of view, but is instead the necessity of transcending the historical character of logic itself. It starts by considering that Marx recognises consciousness as the way in which human subjects … 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)

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2013b). Ser social y producción de conciencia: Economistas para qué [Social being and conciousness production: on the economists]. Presentado en las II Jornadas de Pensamiento Crítico Latinoamericano/Seminario Internacional REDEM-SEPLA, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto.

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ABSTRACT The debates about the education of economists focus on the curriculum, particularly on its level of pluralism. However, the question about the social being of economics students, which determines their need to develop their scientific consciousness with a certain content, has been disregarded. Apparently, economics students are free individuals pursuing objective knowledge. Underlying this … Read more

Starosta, G. (2003). Scientific Knowledge and Political Action: On the Antinomies of Lukács’ Thought in “History and Class Consciousness”. Science & Society, 67(1), 39–67.

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ABSTRACT Lukàcs’ theory of reification as developed in History and Class Consciousness represents an interesting approach to revolutionary subjectivity that goes beyond the objectivism of traditional Marxist accounts. However, his Weberian leanings hindered the concretization of his profound initial insights, and ended up generating antinomies he could not solve. Fundamentally, the basic contradiction of Lukàcs’ theory of reification lies in the gulf … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007a), Conocer el capital hoy. Usar críticamente El Capital [Knowing capital today. Using Capital critically]. 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 [Knowing capital today. Using Capital critically.  Volume 1: The commodity, or the simplest form of alienated consciousness] Imago Mundi, Buenos Aires, 2007. ISBN: 978-950-793-066-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Preface The question Cognition … Read more