A materialist development of some recent contributions to the labour theory of value |
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Authors: | Brown Andrew |
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Institution: | * University of Leeds, UK |
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Abstract: | The paper offers a novel interpretation and affirmation of theopening arguments of Capital, answering the fundamental butneglected question of why labour is the substance of value.Marx's arguments require that two philosophical threads, oftenseparated in the literature on value, be woven together. Theargument that value is the intrinsic content makingcommodities exchangeable employs the thread of realism. Theargument that abstract labour is the emergent socialsubstance of value employs the thread of dialectics.This interpretation develops the materialist and dialecticalphilosophy of E.V. Ilyenkov and deepens the approach to valuetheory initiated by Ben Fine. |
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Keywords: | Capitalism Dialectics Labour theory of value Marxism Realism |
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