Capital as read by Moishe Postone: Alchemy or Astrology?

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Capital as read by Moishe Postone: Alchemy or Astrology?

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Moishe Postone’s book Time, Work, and Social Domination (1993) is intended to be a Hegelian interpretation of Marx’s Capital. Capital is the great subject that moves itself under the impulse of value. Its “movement” is related not to class relations nor to the market, which is supposedly external to labour, but rather to the temporal constraint inherent in a dialectic proper to value, one that binds everybody to an infinite process of abstract labour. This reign of value destroys the concrete...

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Journal article

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2017

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Bidet, Jacques

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14486

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domination / Postone / capital / value / dialectic / abstract labour / abstraction / surplus-value

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