By Christopher J. Arthur
This ebook either argues for, and demonstrates, a brand new flip to dialectic. Marx's Capital used to be basically motivated through Hegel's dialectical figures: right here, case by way of case, the importance of those is clarified. extra, it truly is argued that, rather than the dialectic of the increase and fall of social structures, what's wanted is a technique of articulating the dialectical family members characterising a given social complete. Marx learnt from Hegel the need for a scientific improvement, and integration, of different types; for instance, the class of 'value' may be absolutely comprehended in simple terms within the context of the totality of capitalist family. those reports therefore shed new mild on Marx's nice paintings, whereas going past it in lots of respects.
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The key point to grasp is that the simple category of universality is built into the starting point. Over and over again he explicitly excludes as relevant to the theory social formations in which only surpluses appear on the market. This is stated implicitly in the first line of Capital where it is specified that wealth takes the form of commodities where the capitalist mode of production prevails. More explicitly, Marx says that while, on the one hand ‘the production and circulation of commodities .
Rubin’s masterly exegetical work Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value (1923, 3rd ed. 1928) in the 1970s was an important influence on us. However, it has to be said that Rubin concentrated very much on the forms of exchange. Here I deepen the category of social form to include the bearing of the form of the capital relation, as essentially conflictual, on the primary value categories. Rubin stands at the origin of the ‘value form’ paradigm of Marxist theory. Much mainstream Marxism ignores Marx’s warning that previous labour theories of value had failed to grasp the significance of the value form as the social appearance acquired by capital’s products.
23 Marx, K. 1976 Capital Volume I, p. 90. Marx also pointed out in On Wagner that starting with the commodity has the advantage of starting with a ‘Koncretum’: Marx, K. 1989 ‘On Wagner’, p. 538. 24 I differ from Marx in that I believe it is possible, through the power of abstraction, to push back the beginning beyond ‘the commodity form of the product’ to the world of commodity exchange as such, because I hold that the dialectic of the ‘value form of the commodity’ of itself reaches the required result.