Marx’s Law of value and the ontology of labour: a Castoriadian critical point of view
| Autor: | Richard SOBEL |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Philosophical Economics, Vol XIII, Iss 2, Pp 116-136 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1843-2298 1844-8208 |
| Popis: | In Marx’s thought, is ‘law of value’ a particular law of capitalism (historicism) or a general law of the economy (naturalism)? To clarify this ambiguity, this article proposes to employ the social ontology of Cornélius Castoriadis. For it, ‘labour’ is not a substance, but a recent historical creation through which, finally, the capitalist mode of production expresses a fundamental truth about all society’s way of being. From this perspective, we explore some consequences of this deconstruction for the theory of value as current neo-Marxist approaches may employ it today in their economic analyses. |
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