On materiality and social form: a political critique of Rubin’s circulationist value-form theory.

KICILLOF, AXEL; STAROSTA, GUIDO

Historical Materialism

The London School of Economics

Lugar: London; Año: 2007 vol. 15 p. 9 - 43

1465-4466

The beginning of the 1970s saw a resurgence of interest among Marxist theorists in revisiting Marx´s analysis of the commodity contained in chapter one of Capital. The guiding thread of this reconsideration of Marx´s main work was the reaction to what was seen as the (mis)reading along Ricardian and/or Left-Keynesian lines that had generally prevailed throughout the great bulk of the 20th century.This debate gained momentum over the two decades that followed, engendering a variety of novel interpretations of Marx´s theory of value. However, since the late 1990s the vitality of the debate appears to have faded away and the issue came again to be increasingly consigned to oblivion, as evidenced by its loss of importance in academic journals and conferences. In this paper we shall insist on the primordial importance of a debate which, we believe, is far from being resolved.