INVESTIGADORES
FELIZ Mariano
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Marxian dependency theory, value theory and the labour process. A new reading for critical analysis of dependent capitalism in Argentina
Autor/es:
FÉLIZ, MARIANO
Reunión:
Conferencia; The 39th International Labour Process Conference "Security in Work? The workplace after COVID-19"; 2021
Institución organizadora:
University of Greenwich
Resumen:
Latin American Marxian Dependency Theory (MDT) has been central in our understanding of the limits ofArgentina?s dependent capitalist economy. The superexploitation of labour is the key concept that articulatesboth the labour process and value production with the reproduction of capital in dependent economies. Theexistence of superexploitation as a general feature of a dependent economy not only creates a particularmacroeconomic dynamics in the country (a particular form for the reproduction of capital), but also configures aparticular class structure where the precariousness of labour (and life) is at the center of capital?s ability toexpand. The need to compensate from significant value-transfers towards imperialist economies, forces theorganization of labour processes that recreate the superexploitation of labour (both productive, waged andreproductive, unwaged) as well as the superexploitation of nature.However, the Latin American MDT has for a long time been tied to an ortodox view of value and the labourprocess, with almost no dialogue with the traditions that derive from operaism, autonomist and open marxism,which put the dialectics of labour?s struggles and refusal to work at the center of the organization of the labourprocess and of value-producing dynamics.In this presentation we will revise the MDT?s main arguments and provide a discussion in light of thosetraditions, showing how to grasp the new dialectics of dependency by putting labour struggles at the center ofvalue production and the labour process. We will do so while analysing the dynamics of dependent capitalistreproduction in Argentina during the recent decades. Our discussion will shed new light into the centrality ofanalysing the articulation of the labour process and value production/extraction/appropriation for thecomprehension of the limits of capitalist development in dependent settings.