Guido Starosta

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

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

Starosta, G., & Fitzsimons, A. (2018). Rethinking the determination of the value of labor power. Review of Radical Political Economics, 50(1), 99–115.

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ABSTRACT This article critically examines the received wisdom on the value of labor power that posits the workers’ material reproduction and the class struggle as two independent factors that determine the bundle of wage-goods consumed by the working class. It shows that this reading has no solid textual basis on Marx’s writings. Furthermore, it argues … Read more

Charnock, G., & Starosta, G. (2018). Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development: Human Productive Subjectivity, Capital and the International. Global Society, 32(3), 324-343.

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ABSTRACT This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialectical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materialism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be … Read more

Caligaris, G., & Starosta, G. (2018). The determination of the “historical and moral component” of the value of labour-power. Caderno CRH, 31(82), 135–150.

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ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to challenge the prevailing Marxist interpretation of what Marx called the “historical and moral component” of the value of labour-power, and to offer an alternative reading which is consistent with the foundations of the critique of political economy. In order to do so, the first part of the … Read more