Guido Starosta
Biographic Data
| ID | 161752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guido Starosta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guido |
| FAMILY NAME | Starosta |
| SIGNATURE | STAROSTA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Quilmes |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0924-8339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Global value chains in the contemporary automotive industry
Marx and Socially Necessary Labor Time. On the Content and Form of the Quantitative Determination of Value
This article revisits the debates on socially necessary labor-time (SNLT) in the light of contemporary discussions of Marx ́s value-theory, which have tended to move from a rather narrow focus on the explanation of the economic basis of the exploitation of wage-workers, to a wider critical inquiry into the social constitution of alienated forms of mediation that structure capitalist society. Moreover, this re-examination of SNLT draws on a novel …
If "Marxists" would only read Marx
Simon Clarke was an original and consistent Marxist thinker. From an early stage in his career, he independently developed a cogent, non-dogmatic reading of Marx's work that ran against the grain of the dominant variants of Marx of his day. In this piece, we delineate the main features of Clarke's Marxism through a reading of an early essay, first drafted in 1970. We highlight his critique of ideology, his focus on the forms through which the soc…
A missing link in the agrarian question
This article examines the relevance of ground-rent and landed property for the economic and political forms of capital accumulation in Argentina. This specific focus on capitalist development in Argentina is more broadly framed as a theoretical intervention within recent debates on Agrarian Marxism, which addresses the major issues under controversy through the lenses of an original methodologically-minded approach to the Marxian critique of poli…
Una mercancía “como cualquier otra”? Reexaminando la determinación del valor de la fuerza de trabajo
Este artículo aborda la cuestión del proceso de producción de la fuerza de trabajo con el objetivo de reexaminar la postura de Marx sobre la determinación del valor de esta ‘mercancía peculiar’. En pos de ello, se revisan críticamente los principales aportes que han cuestionado el análisis marxiano de dicho fenómeno, para luego ofrecer una línea argumental alternativa que da fundamentos adicionales a la explicación de Marx acerca de la determinac…
Revisiting the Marxist Skilled-Labour Debate
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 have failed to develop a solution that is consistent with the foundations…
Global Capital Accumulation and the Specificity of Latin America
This chapter addresses the theme of Latin America and its relationship with the works and ideas of Karl Marx from three different angles. First, it offers an overview of the textual evidence of the scattered passages in which Marx comments on the realities of Latin American countries. In the second place, it provides a critical review of the major controversies around Marx’s direct references to this region’s societies among Latin American Marxis…
Rethinking the Determination of the Value of Labor Power
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 that it rests on a problematic separation of the actual immanent unity between materiality and social fo…
Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development
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 dialec- tical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materi- alism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be asserted on descriptive grounds, or in logical abstraction…
Global capital, uneven development and national difference
A recent Special Issue in this journal devoted its pages to discuss the varied forms of capitalist development in different countries and regions across the globe. Specifically, the contributions offered a critical assessment of the hegemonic 'neo-institutionalist' approach to the study of national diversity of capitalism, with particular focus on the 'varieties of capitalism' approach. This article critically engages with the different alternati…
La Determinación Del "Elemento Histórico Y Moral" Del Valor De La Fuerza De Trabajo
El objetivo de este artículo es discutir la interpretación marxista dominante respecto del significado de lo que Marx llamó el "elemento histórico y moral" del valor de la fuerza de trabajo y ofrecer una lectura alternativa que sea consistente con los fundamentos de la crítica marxiana de la economía política. Para tal fin, en la primera parte del artículo, se realiza una crítica de dicha interpretación basada en el reconocimiento de su génesis h…
The Role and Place of ‘Commodity Fetishism’ in Marx’s Systematic-dialectical Exposition in Capital
This article aims to contribute to the literature on Marx’s systematic-dialectical method through a critical reading and discussion of the significance and presentational ‘architecture’ of the section on commodity fetishism in the dialectical sequence of form-determinations in Capital . In order to undertake this task, the paper firstly explores the content and expositional structure of the first three sections of Chapter 1 of Capital . This sets…
Fetichismo y revolución en la teoría marxista contemporánea
El artculo examina una serie de aportes recientes a la lectura de El capital que hacen eje en su determinacin como una investigacin dialctica de las formas fetichizadas de mediacin social en el capitalismo. Ms especficamente, se aborda la Neue Marx-Lektre y el Marxismo Abierto. Se argumenta que los lmites de estas perspectivas emergen en la forma en que conciben las determinaciones de la subjetividad revolucionaria, la cual no logran fundar
The New International Division of Labour
This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon…
Revisiting the New International Division of Labour Thesis
Starosta outlines a thoroughly revised ‘new international division of labour (NIDL) thesis that explains global transformation and uneven development on the basis of the progress of the automation of capitalist large-scale industry, and its impact on the individual and collective productive subjectivity of the working class. Today, in an ever more complex constellation of the NIDL, capital searches worldwide for the most profitable combinations o…
Marx’s Capital , Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity
In Marx ́s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Through a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, from the early writings up to the Grundrisse and Capital, this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation, …
The Commodity Nature of Labor-Power
Some recent Marxist contributions, among them the so-called New Solution to the “transformation problem,” call into question the idea of labor-power as a fully-fledged commodity. Yet, the rejection of the commodity nature of labor-power compromises Marx's whole explanation of the origin of surplus-value on the basis of the exchange of equivalents. It can be shown, however, that it is possible to offer a positive case for the commodity-nature of l…
From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America
In the last decade there has been a broad shift to the left in South America. Yet, different types of political economy regimes can be discerned within this general common trend. There is currently a relatively widespread consensus that two different varieties of centre-left administrations are in office in the region. Mainstream analyses distinguish countries where a ́responsible left ́ governs from countries were old style ́populism ́ is in con…
In Marx's Laboratory
In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse provides a critical analysis of the Grundrisse as a crucial stage in the development of Marx’s critique of political economy. Stressing both the achievements and limitations of this much-debated text, and drawing upon recent philological advances, this volume attempts to re-read Marx’s 1857-58 manuscripts against the background of Capital, as a ‘laboratory’ in which Marx first began…
Cognitive Commodities and the Value-Form
One of the central claims of the “post-workerist” Cognitive Capitalism approach is that the specific ontology of cognitive commodities (costless reproducibility, indivisibility, non-rivalry, etc.) contributes to the obsolescence of the Marxian “law of value” in contemporary capitalism. Although that claim is usually presented as grounded on self-evident and unproblematic facts and implications of the nature of cognitive commodities, those argumen…
On value and abstract labour
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 on abstract labour and value. In addition to clarifying our position, the article provides some b…
Machinery, Productive Subjectivity and the Limits to Capitalism in Capital and the Grundrisse
The Outsourcing of Manufacturing and the Rise of Giant Global Contractors
This article aims to show that the Marxian 'law of value' can provide solid foundations for the comprehension of the constitution and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC). It offers an explanation of the social processes of 'value creation and capture' within a chain based on the system-wide motion of global capital accumulation. A firm connection is thus established between the particular dynamics internal to each industry and the general dynam…
Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value
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 one‐sidedly conceptualises the relations among individual capitals within a commodity chain as the s…
The Limits of Studies in Comparative Development of East Asia and Latin America
This paper critically examines the widespread belief that the early implementation of comprehensive land reforms prior to the industrialisation process, coupled with subsequent agrarian state policies channelling the intersectoral transfer of resources, has been a central determinant of East Asia's (mainly Taiwan's and South Korea's) outperformance of Latin America. We argue that, although those agrarian policies should certainly be part of any c…
Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value
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 one‐sidedly conceptualises the relations among individual capitals within a commodity chain as the s…
The Outsourcing of Manufacturing and the Rise of Giant Global Contractors
This article aims to show that the Marxian 'law of value' can provide solid foundations for the comprehension of the constitution and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC). It offers an explanation of the social processes of 'value creation and capture' within a chain based on the system-wide motion of global capital accumulation. A firm connection is thus established between the particular dynamics internal to each industry and the general dynam…
Cognitive Commodities and the Value-Form
One of the central claims of the “post-workerist” Cognitive Capitalism approach is that the specific ontology of cognitive commodities (costless reproducibility, indivisibility, non-rivalry, etc.) contributes to the obsolescence of the Marxian “law of value” in contemporary capitalism. Although that claim is usually presented as grounded on self-evident and unproblematic facts and implications of the nature of cognitive commodities, those argumen…
On value and abstract labour
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 on abstract labour and value. In addition to clarifying our position, the article provides some b…
Value form and class struggle
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 the real relation between them and, more importantly…
The Limits of Studies in Comparative Development of East Asia and Latin America
This paper critically examines the widespread belief that the early implementation of comprehensive land reforms prior to the industrialisation process, coupled with subsequent agrarian state policies channelling the intersectoral transfer of resources, has been a central determinant of East Asia's (mainly Taiwan's and South Korea's) outperformance of Latin America. We argue that, although those agrarian policies should certainly be part of any c…
The Commodity-Form and the Dialectical Method
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 analytical process within dialectical thought, which distingui…
On Materiality and Social Form
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, a problematic conceptualisation of the inner connection between materi…
Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development
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 dialec- tical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materi- alism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be asserted on descriptive grounds, or in logical abstraction…
Scientific Knowledge and Political Action
Lukács’ 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 Lukács’ theory of reification lies in the gulf betw…
A missing link in the agrarian question
This article examines the relevance of ground-rent and landed property for the economic and political forms of capital accumulation in Argentina. This specific focus on capitalist development in Argentina is more broadly framed as a theoretical intervention within recent debates on Agrarian Marxism, which addresses the major issues under controversy through the lenses of an original methodologically-minded approach to the Marxian critique of poli…
The Role and Place of ‘Commodity Fetishism’ in Marx’s Systematic-dialectical Exposition in Capital
This article aims to contribute to the literature on Marx’s systematic-dialectical method through a critical reading and discussion of the significance and presentational ‘architecture’ of the section on commodity fetishism in the dialectical sequence of form-determinations in Capital . In order to undertake this task, the paper firstly explores the content and expositional structure of the first three sections of Chapter 1 of Capital . This sets…
Global capital, uneven development and national difference
A recent Special Issue in this journal devoted its pages to discuss the varied forms of capitalist development in different countries and regions across the globe. Specifically, the contributions offered a critical assessment of the hegemonic 'neo-institutionalist' approach to the study of national diversity of capitalism, with particular focus on the 'varieties of capitalism' approach. This article critically engages with the different alternati…
The Commodity Nature of Labor-Power
Some recent Marxist contributions, among them the so-called New Solution to the “transformation problem,” call into question the idea of labor-power as a fully-fledged commodity. Yet, the rejection of the commodity nature of labor-power compromises Marx's whole explanation of the origin of surplus-value on the basis of the exchange of equivalents. It can be shown, however, that it is possible to offer a positive case for the commodity-nature of l…
Machinery, Productive Subjectivity and the Limits to Capitalism in Capital and the Grundrisse
Revisiting the Marxist Skilled-Labour Debate
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 have failed to develop a solution that is consistent with the foundations…
Fetichismo y revolución en la teoría marxista contemporánea
El artculo examina una serie de aportes recientes a la lectura de El capital que hacen eje en su determinacin como una investigacin dialctica de las formas fetichizadas de mediacin social en el capitalismo. Ms especficamente, se aborda la Neue Marx-Lektre y el Marxismo Abierto. Se argumenta que los lmites de estas perspectivas emergen en la forma en que conciben las determinaciones de la subjetividad revolucionaria, la cual no logran fundar
Scientific Knowledge and Political Action
Lukács’ 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 Lukács’ theory of reification lies in the gulf betw…
On Materiality and Social Form
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, a problematic conceptualisation of the inner connection between materi…
Value form and class struggle
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 the real relation between them and, more importantly…
The Commodity-Form and the Dialectical Method
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 analytical process within dialectical thought, which distingui…
The Limits of Studies in Comparative Development of East Asia and Latin America
This paper critically examines the widespread belief that the early implementation of comprehensive land reforms prior to the industrialisation process, coupled with subsequent agrarian state policies channelling the intersectoral transfer of resources, has been a central determinant of East Asia's (mainly Taiwan's and South Korea's) outperformance of Latin America. We argue that, although those agrarian policies should certainly be part of any c…
The Outsourcing of Manufacturing and the Rise of Giant Global Contractors
This article aims to show that the Marxian 'law of value' can provide solid foundations for the comprehension of the constitution and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC). It offers an explanation of the social processes of 'value creation and capture' within a chain based on the system-wide motion of global capital accumulation. A firm connection is thus established between the particular dynamics internal to each industry and the general dynam…
Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value
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 one‐sidedly conceptualises the relations among individual capitals within a commodity chain as the s…
On value and abstract labour
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 on abstract labour and value. In addition to clarifying our position, the article provides some b…
Machinery, Productive Subjectivity and the Limits to Capitalism in Capital and the Grundrisse
Cognitive Commodities and the Value-Form
One of the central claims of the “post-workerist” Cognitive Capitalism approach is that the specific ontology of cognitive commodities (costless reproducibility, indivisibility, non-rivalry, etc.) contributes to the obsolescence of the Marxian “law of value” in contemporary capitalism. Although that claim is usually presented as grounded on self-evident and unproblematic facts and implications of the nature of cognitive commodities, those argumen…
In Marx's Laboratory
In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse provides a critical analysis of the Grundrisse as a crucial stage in the development of Marx’s critique of political economy. Stressing both the achievements and limitations of this much-debated text, and drawing upon recent philological advances, this volume attempts to re-read Marx’s 1857-58 manuscripts against the background of Capital, as a ‘laboratory’ in which Marx first began…
From Global Capital Accumulation to Varieties of Centre-Leftism in South America
In the last decade there has been a broad shift to the left in South America. Yet, different types of political economy regimes can be discerned within this general common trend. There is currently a relatively widespread consensus that two different varieties of centre-left administrations are in office in the region. Mainstream analyses distinguish countries where a ́responsible left ́ governs from countries were old style ́populism ́ is in con…
The New International Division of Labour
This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon…
Revisiting the New International Division of Labour Thesis
Starosta outlines a thoroughly revised ‘new international division of labour (NIDL) thesis that explains global transformation and uneven development on the basis of the progress of the automation of capitalist large-scale industry, and its impact on the individual and collective productive subjectivity of the working class. Today, in an ever more complex constellation of the NIDL, capital searches worldwide for the most profitable combinations o…
Marx’s Capital , Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity
In Marx ́s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity, Guido Starosta develops a materialist inquiry into the social and historical determinations of revolutionary subjectivity. Through a methodologically-minded critical reconstruction of the Marxian critique of political economy, from the early writings up to the Grundrisse and Capital, this study shows that the outcome of the historical movement of the objectified form of social mediation, …
The Commodity Nature of Labor-Power
Some recent Marxist contributions, among them the so-called New Solution to the “transformation problem,” call into question the idea of labor-power as a fully-fledged commodity. Yet, the rejection of the commodity nature of labor-power compromises Marx's whole explanation of the origin of surplus-value on the basis of the exchange of equivalents. It can be shown, however, that it is possible to offer a positive case for the commodity-nature of l…
The Role and Place of ‘Commodity Fetishism’ in Marx’s Systematic-dialectical Exposition in Capital
This article aims to contribute to the literature on Marx’s systematic-dialectical method through a critical reading and discussion of the significance and presentational ‘architecture’ of the section on commodity fetishism in the dialectical sequence of form-determinations in Capital . In order to undertake this task, the paper firstly explores the content and expositional structure of the first three sections of Chapter 1 of Capital . This sets…
Fetichismo y revolución en la teoría marxista contemporánea
El artculo examina una serie de aportes recientes a la lectura de El capital que hacen eje en su determinacin como una investigacin dialctica de las formas fetichizadas de mediacin social en el capitalismo. Ms especficamente, se aborda la Neue Marx-Lektre y el Marxismo Abierto. Se argumenta que los lmites de estas perspectivas emergen en la forma en que conciben las determinaciones de la subjetividad revolucionaria, la cual no logran fundar
Global Capital Accumulation and the Specificity of Latin America
This chapter addresses the theme of Latin America and its relationship with the works and ideas of Karl Marx from three different angles. First, it offers an overview of the textual evidence of the scattered passages in which Marx comments on the realities of Latin American countries. In the second place, it provides a critical review of the major controversies around Marx’s direct references to this region’s societies among Latin American Marxis…
Rethinking the Determination of the Value of Labor Power
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 that it rests on a problematic separation of the actual immanent unity between materiality and social fo…
Towards a “Unified Field Theory” of Uneven Development
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 dialec- tical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in historical-geographical materi- alism, and in the work of Neil Smith in particular. It argues, first, that geopolitical modes of explanation cannot be asserted on descriptive grounds, or in logical abstraction…
Global capital, uneven development and national difference
A recent Special Issue in this journal devoted its pages to discuss the varied forms of capitalist development in different countries and regions across the globe. Specifically, the contributions offered a critical assessment of the hegemonic 'neo-institutionalist' approach to the study of national diversity of capitalism, with particular focus on the 'varieties of capitalism' approach. This article critically engages with the different alternati…
La Determinación Del "Elemento Histórico Y Moral" Del Valor De La Fuerza De Trabajo
El objetivo de este artículo es discutir la interpretación marxista dominante respecto del significado de lo que Marx llamó el "elemento histórico y moral" del valor de la fuerza de trabajo y ofrecer una lectura alternativa que sea consistente con los fundamentos de la crítica marxiana de la economía política. Para tal fin, en la primera parte del artículo, se realiza una crítica de dicha interpretación basada en el reconocimiento de su génesis h…
Una mercancía “como cualquier otra”? Reexaminando la determinación del valor de la fuerza de trabajo
Este artículo aborda la cuestión del proceso de producción de la fuerza de trabajo con el objetivo de reexaminar la postura de Marx sobre la determinación del valor de esta ‘mercancía peculiar’. En pos de ello, se revisan críticamente los principales aportes que han cuestionado el análisis marxiano de dicho fenómeno, para luego ofrecer una línea argumental alternativa que da fundamentos adicionales a la explicación de Marx acerca de la determinac…
Revisiting the Marxist Skilled-Labour Debate
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 have failed to develop a solution that is consistent with the foundations…
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