Iñigo Carrera, J. (1997). De la simple mercancía a la mercancía-capital: La transformación de los valores en precios de producción. Documento de Investigación del Centro para la Investigación como Crítica Práctica, Buenos Aires.

RESUMEN 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 … Leer más

Iñigo Carrera, J. (1995a). From Simple Commodities to Capital-Commodities: The Transformation of Values into Prices of Production. Presentado en el 21st Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Mini-Conference of the International Working Group in Value Theory, New York City.

RESUMEN 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 … Leer más

Iñigo Carrera, J. (2007d). El fetichismo de la mercancía bajo su forma de «teoría de la crisis del trabajo abstracto». Presentado en el 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.

RESUMEN 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 … Leer más

Starosta, G. (2007b). Value form and class struggle: A critique of the autonomist theory of value. (en colaboración con Kicillof, A.) Capital & Class, 31(2), 13–40.

RESUMEN This paper develops a critique of the ‘class struggle’ theory of value that emerged out of the autonomist Marxist tradition, arguing that although this theory has the merit of putting forward a production-centred, value-form approach, it eventually fails to grasp the determinations of value-producing labour. In particular, the notion of value as a mode of existence of the class struggle inverts … Leer más

Starosta, G. (2007a). On Materiality and Social Form: A Political Critique of Rubin’s Value-Form Theory. (en colaboración con Kicillof, A.) Historical Materialism, 15(3), 9–43.

RESUMEN This paper critically examines I.I. Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value and argues that two different approaches to value theory can be found in that book: a more ‘production-centred’ value-form theory uneasily co-exists with a ‘circulationist’ perspective. This unresolved tension, the authors claim, reflects a more general theoretical shortcoming in Rubin’s work, namely, … Leer más

Starosta, G. (2008). The Commodity-Form and the Dialectical Method: On the Structure of Marx’s Exposition in Chapter 1 of Capital. Science & Society, 72(3), 295–318.

RESUMEN The last 10 or 15 years have witnessed a renewed interest in Marx’s dialectical method and its implications for value theory. However, most works have not sufficiently thematized the peculiar role of the phase of analysis in Marx’s dialectical investigation generally and in his presentation in particular. Furthermore, they have not paid sufficient attention to the specific form of the … Leer más

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.

RESUMEN 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, … Leer más

Starosta, G. (2010a). Global commodity chains and the Marxian law of value. Antipode, 42(2), 433–465.

RESUMEN This paper develops a Marxian critique of the “global commodity chain” (GCC) paradigm. It is argued that this approach fails to provide an actual explanation of the phenomenon it sets about to investigate. Instead, it offers a typological description of the immediate manifestations of the determinations at stake. As a consequence, the GCC approach … Leer más

Starosta, G. (2011). On Value and Abstract Labour: A Reply to Werner Bonefeld. (en colaboración con Kicillof, A.) Capital & Class, 2(35), 295–305.

RESUMEN 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 … Leer más