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De Angelis, Massimo Beyond the Technological and the Social Paradigms: A Political Reading of Abstract Labour as the Substance of Value 1995 Article Marx, On Marx on Abstract Labour, Political Theory, Social Centrality of Work Value Theory, Marxism, Marx, Capitalism, Abstraction, Forced Labor, Class Struggle
Citation De Angelis, Massimo 1995 Article Capital & Class Value Theory Marxism Marx Capitalism Abstraction Forced Labor Class Struggle Marx On Marx on Abstract Labour Political Theory Social Centrality of Work

"Beyond the Technological and the Social Paradigms: A Political Reading of Abstract Labour as the Substance of Value"

by De Angelis, Massimo (1995)

Abstract

De Angelis proposes an approach to value which gives central place to the capital-labour relation, and specifically to the category of abstract labour as the form taken by work under capitalism?alienated, imposed, and inherently boundless. This approach is counter-posed to alternative readings of the labour theory of value in both the technological and social paradigms.

Keywords

Value Theory, Marxism, Marx, Capitalism, Abstraction, Forced Labor, Class Struggle

Themes

Marx, On Marx on Abstract Labour, Political Theory, Social Centrality of Work

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