By Jacques Bidet
David Fernbach (tr.), Alex Callinicos (Foreword)
This quantity, initially released in French below the identify Que faire du Capital?, deals a brand new interpretation of Marx’s nice paintings. It indicates how the newness and lasting curiosity of Marx’s idea arises from the truth that, as opposed to the undertaking of a ‘pure’ economics, it's formulated in options that experience at the same time an financial and a political element, neither of those being separable from the opposite. Jacques Bidet conducts an unheard of research of Marx’s paintings within the spirit of the historical past of technological know-how, exploring it as a technique of theoretical improvement. conventional exegesis reads the successive drafts of Capital as though they have been complementary and collectively illuminated each other. in general, like all scientist, Marx in simple terms wrote a brand new model as a way to right the former one. He began from rules borrowed from Ricardo and Hegel, and among one draft and the subsequent it truly is attainable to work out those being eradicated and restructured. This labour, furthermore, was once by no means totally accomplished. the writer hence re-assesses Marx’s whole procedure in its set of constitutive different types: worth, marketplace, labour-power, sessions, operating type, exploitation, creation, fetishism, ideology. He seeks to pin down the problems that those encountered, and the analytical and important worth they nonetheless have at the present time. Bidet attaches the best significance to Marx’s order of exposition, which assigns every one thought its position within the total process, and makes the validity of the development depend upon the pertinence of its preliminary presuppositions. this can be fairly the case with the connection among industry mechanism and capitalism – and hence additionally among the industry and socialism.
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While there is free examination of technical points, the specifically economic categories, there is a kind of rule of silent respect for the philosophical scaffolding that is deemed unchangeable. And even the most systematic and exhaustive West-German studies, those of the ‘Projektgruppe Entwicklung des Marxschen Systems’, too often behave as if philosophical figures did not have a different bearing on Marx’s work from one text to another. In short, if this period of maturity has been the subject of several works, in the wake of the classic texts of R.
In capitalist society, the ‘experience’ according to which exchange between commodities is regulated in the last resort by necessary labour-time precisely does not exist. Already in Chapter 1, the category of fetishism is introduced, its object being to account for the fact that ‘experience’ does not attest to value 28 Marx 1976a, p. ] Cf. Marx 1971, pp. 31–2. Value as Quantity • 23 as quantity of embodied labour. We may deduce from this that experience also does not enable us to say that skilled labour yields more value.
135. Value as Quantity • 19 The anthropological connotation of the text is plain: ordinary man is promoted to the rank of man in general. It seems to me, however, that this humanist thematisation is not an end in itself, but there is also a philosophical recourse here that responds to an extraphilosophical intention: that of resolving problems arising from the specific theoretical matrix set up at the start of Capital. More precisely, Marx seeks to escape from the trap I have described above: he tries to successively take into account the different ‘kinds’ of labour without cancelling the initial operation that made abstraction from the kind of labour.
