Alienation in the Form of Value (Heterodoxly Approaching <i>Das Kapital</i>)

Jordi Soler Alomà

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Alienation in the Form of Value (Heterodoxly Approaching Das Kapital)

Jordi Soler Alomà

Published in International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 9, Issue 4)

Received: 7 June 2021 Accepted: 5 July 2021 Published: 23 November 2021

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The objective of this work is to access what we can refer to as the "nerve core" of Marx's dialectical thinking as it appears in in Das Kapital linking it to the concept of alienation (a key concept of the same thinker). Marx's work has been the victim of a sui generis treatment, which would be unacceptable to any of the classical authors. Such intellectual inconsistency with respect to Marx affects all Western thought and, especially, European thought, which declared Marx's thought “officially dead” (i.e. Bad Godesberg, 1959 and, in general, the so called “postmodernism”). Another pathology that affects the study of Marx's thought is the non-distinction between what constitutes the author's thinking properly, and the indeterminate speculative magma of which "Marxism" is composed (of which, as is well known, Marx himself said not be part). Another bad habit is to separate Marx into different characters based on the interests of the user, i.e.: the "young" Marx and the "mature" Marx; the "Feuerbachian" Marx, the "Hegelian" Marx, the "economist" Marx, the "sociologist" Marx, the "philosopher" Marx, the " anthropologist" Marx, or the "methodologist" Marx. There is only one Marx; a philosopher who not only studies the history of philosophy, but (as once did the lucid minds of Plato or Aristotle) also studies the most complex entity of the known Nature: the human being in its entirety, in the most extensive sense of the concept; that is, as a system. In Das Kapital, the concept of alienation is taken for granted, since it is part of the author's intellectual baggage and, naturally, does not have to explain it again (there are those who believe that the "mature Marx" abandoned it). In any case, we rely on what Marx vehemently expressed regarding the part where the form of value is analysed: he insists that the most important and essential of his work is contained in this chapter, whose reading and assimilation is indispensable for the full understanding of the work. It is in this context that he writes that "the secret of every form of value is contained in the simple form."

Published in	International Journal of Philosophy (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijp.20210904.15
Page(s)	204-215
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Society, Reality, Alienation, Marx, Value, System

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