Determinations of free conscious

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

Starosta, G. (2012b). El sistema de maquinaria y las determinaciones de la subjetividad revolucionaria en los Grundrisse y El Capital [The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital]. 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. 92–136). Buenos Aires: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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ABSTRACT Este trabajo sintetiza los descubrimientos realizados por Marx sobre las determinaciones concretas de la organización social superadora del modo de producción capitalista bajo la forma potencial en que se presentan bajo el actual modo de producción. A través del análisis de lo planteado por Marx en cuanto a los cambios en la materialidad del … Read more

Starosta, Guido (2015), Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity. Brill.

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Starosta, Guido Marx’s Capital, Method y Revolutionary Subjectivity Brill, Leiden, 2015. ISBN: 978-90-04-30647-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS – Acknowledgements – Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory – Part I. Marx’s Early Critique of Political Economy: The Discovery of the Revolutionary Subject and the Development of Science as Practical Criticism 1. The Dialectic of Alienated … Read more

Fitzsimons, A. (2016b). ¿Qué es el “fetichismo de la mercancía”? Un análisis textual de la sección cuarta del capítulo primero de El Capital de Marx [What´s “commodity fetischism”? A textual analysis of the fourth section of the first chapter of Marx´s Capital]. Revista de economía crítica, (21), 43–58.

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ABSTRACT This article offers a detailed comment on the fourth section of the first chapter of Marx’s Capital, in order to determine and specify what exactly is the so-called “commodity fetishism”. It is shown that in that section Marx is not dealing mainly with the misunderstanding of the commodity–form nor with the “reification” of social … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2012b). El capital: determinación económica y subjetividad política [Capital: economical determination and political subjectivity]. Crítica Jurídica. Revista Latinoamericana de Política, Filosofía y Derecho, (34), 51–69.

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ABSTRACT Marx synthesises the relationship between the economic base and the political and juridical superstructure stating that the latter emerges from the former. The point is, then, to unfold the concrete form taken by this determination and, consequently, that of the determination of the consciousness with which free individuals govern their actions as organs of … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2014b). Dialectics on Its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject. En T. Smith (Ed.), Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Logic (pp. 64–88). Leiden: Brill

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ABSTRACT Juan Iñigo Carrera’s chapter (‘Dialectics on its Feet, or the Form of the Consciousness of the Working Class as Historical Subject’) 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 … Read more

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2014a). The Historical Determination of the Capitalist Mode of Production and of the Working Class as the Revolutionary Subject. Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, 42(4), 555–572

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ABSTRACT Prominent Marxist theoreticians conceive the working class as a revolutionary subject based on moral or ethical superiority, a natural will for freedom, self-valorization, the need to avoid barbarism, etc. From a materialist viewpoint, human history consists of the transformation of the material conditions of social life through labor. Capitalism is the historically specific development … Read more