{"title":"Revisiting the ‘expropriation of expropriators’ in Marx’s ‘Capital’","authors":"É. Balibar","doi":"10.4324/9780429329289-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429329289-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166847,"journal":{"name":"Marx’s Capital after 150 Years","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127470429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-23DOI: 10.4324/9780429329289-13
W. Roberts
{"title":"Reading Capital as political theory","authors":"W. Roberts","doi":"10.4324/9780429329289-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429329289-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166847,"journal":{"name":"Marx’s Capital after 150 Years","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116698085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marx’s maturity critical theory explains the directional dynamics of modern societies on the basis of the categories of commodity and capital as domination and heteronomy modes: it is all about people’s domination by time, by a specific historical form of temporality. In this theory, this dynamic and the apparent ontological centrality of work are the subject of criticism and not its starting point: it is explicitly stated that this is a historical specific approach and calls into question all those approaches that claim their universal and trans-historical validity. Within this framework, the duality of the commodity-form as value and usevalue underlies the duality of the capital-form as a valorization process and a work process. This duality generates a dialectical interaction that results in a complex temporary dynamic that pushes the creation of value forward and, at the same time, becomes increasingly anachronistic. The long-term trend of this historical display is resolved by the obsolescence of production based on work time, value and proletarian labour – Marx stated that the abolition of capitalism will not mean the proletariat’s self-fulfillment but its self-abolition. This possibility currently emerges in an inverted way: the increase of superfluous work, unemployment and precariousness; the transformation of increasingly life dimensions in different forms of alleged wealth – related to prices and profits – EL CAPITAL DE MARX: 151 AÑOS DEL LIBRO I 45 that would supposedly guarantee the future liquidation of increasingly complex financial instruments (as if wealth was independent from value in capitalism). This article analyses the end of the post-war Keynesian-fordist capitalism, boosted by economic crises, as an expression of the cyclic crisis of the valorization process. Crisis in which we are still immersed.
马克思的成熟批判理论在商品和资本作为统治和他律模式的范畴的基础上解释了现代社会的方向性动态:它都是关于人们被时间统治,被一种特定的历史形式的暂时性统治。在这个理论中,这种动态和工作的明显本体论中心是批评的主题,而不是它的出发点:它明确指出,这是一种特定于历史的方法,并对所有声称其普遍和跨历史有效性的方法提出质疑。在这个框架内,作为价值和使用价值的商品形式的两重性是作为价值增值过程和工作过程的资本形式的两重性的基础。这种二元性产生了辩证的相互作用,导致了一种复杂的临时动态,推动了价值的创造,同时也变得越来越不合时宜。这种历史表现的长期趋势是由以劳动时间、价值和无产阶级劳动为基础的生产的过时所解决的——马克思说,资本主义的废除并不意味着无产阶级的自我实现,而是无产阶级的自我废除。这种可能性目前以一种相反的方式出现:多余工作、失业和不稳定的增加;以不同形式的所谓财富(与价格和利润有关)的日益增长的生活维度的转变- EL CAPITAL DE MARX: 151 AÑOS DEL LIBRO I 45,据称可以保证未来清算日益复杂的金融工具(好像财富独立于资本主义的价值)。本文分析了战后凯恩斯-福特主义资本主义在经济危机推动下的终结,作为价值增值过程中周期性危机的表现。我们仍然沉浸在危机之中。
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