Research on the Marxist Theory of Rate of Surplus Value and the Wage-earning Class (1896–1980)

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Delaunay
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Wage Earning

scholarly journals Foundations of a Marxist Theory of the Political Economy of Information: Trade Secrets and Intellectual Property, and the Production of Relative Surplus Value and the Extraction of Rent-Tribute

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Rigi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Social Surplus ◽  
The One

The aim of this article is to sketch a preliminary outline of a Marxist theory of the political economy of information. It defines information as a symbolic form that can be digitally copied. This definition is purely formal and disregards epistemological, ideological, and functional aspects. The article argues that the value of information defined in this sense tends to zero and therefore the price of information is rent. However, information plays a central role in the production of relative surplus value on the one hand, and the distribution of the total social surplus value in forms of surplus profits and rents, on the other. Thus, the hegemony of information technologies in contemporary productive forces has not made Marx’s theory of value irrelevant. On the contrary, the political economy of information can only be understood in the light of this theory. The article demonstrates that the capitalist production and distribution of surplus value at the global level forms the foundation of the political economy of information.

scholarly journals The Formation of Marxist Theory of Surplus Value

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Shi
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Labor Theory Of Value ◽  
Labor Theory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
David Ricardo

Marxist theory of surplus value is founded on the basis of Marx's labor theory of value. The theory of surplus value is based on mercantilism and the theory of surplus value of David Ricardo. Adam Smith and Owen also played a certain role in the formation of Marxist surplus value theory. Marx's analysis of the subject of labor and the process of labor is the basis of historical materialism of surplus value theory. This paper analyzes the significance of the formation of Marxist surplus value.

scholarly journals A CATEGORIA TRABALHO NA CIÊNCIA GEOGRÁFICA. O CONTEXTO DO PENSAMENTO CRÍTICO

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzane Tosta Souza ◽  
Jânio Roberto Diniz dos Santos ◽  
Fátima Crislane Batista Rocha ◽  
Victor Andrade Silva Leal
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Trajectory ◽  
Trabajo Social ◽  
Abstract Work ◽  
Historical Production

O presente artigo busca evidenciar a centralidade da categoria trabalho nos estudos realizados em Geografia. Expressa a trajetória acadêmica de seus autores e de grupos de pesquisa que tem por objetivo compreender as complexidades e metamorfoses ocorridas no mundo trabalho e seus rebatimentos espaciais. Ancorando-se na teoria marxista apresenta o trabalho enquanto condição ontológica humana e que, sob a expansão das relações capitalistas de produção, adquire o caráter de trabalho abstrato, produtor de mais valia. Resgatando a leitura Lefebvriana, fundamentada na teoria do valor trabalho de Marx, compreende-se que o espaço geográfico é produção social e histórica e só pode ser analisado por meio do trabalho. O trabalho social é o produtor do espaço geográfico, portanto categoria central para se compreender os processos espaciais. Palavras-Chave: Trabalho, Capital, Geografia, Produção do espaço.  ABSTRACTThis article seeks to highlight the centrality of labor category in the studies carried out in Geography. It expresses the academic trajectory of their authors and research groups, which aimed to understand the complexities and metamorphoses, took place in the labor world and their spatial rebuttals. By basing upon Marxist theory, the work presents, while human ontological condition and, that under the expansion of capitalist relations of production, acquires the character of abstract work, producer of surplus value. Retaking the Lefebvrian reading, based on the theory of labor value of Marx, it understands that the geographic space is social and historical production and, it can only be analyzed by means of the labor. The social labor is the producer of the geographic space; therefore, it is the central category to comprehend the spatial processes.Keywords: Labor, Capital, Geography, Production of Space. RESUME El presente artículo busca evidenciar la centralidad de la categoría trabajo en los estudios realizados en Geografía. Expresa la trayectoria académica de sus autores y de grupos de investigación que tienen como objetivo comprender las complejidades y metamorfosis sucedidas en el mundo trabajo y sus refutaciones espaciales. Anclándose en la teoría marxista, el trabajo es presentado como una condición ontológica humana y que, bajo la expansión de las relaciones capitalistas de producción, adquiere el carácter de trabajo abstracto, producto de mayor valor. Rescatando la lectura Lefebvriana, fundamentada en la teoría del  valor trabajo de Marx, se comprende que el espacio geográfico es la producción social e histórica, y sólo puede ser analizado a través del trabajo. El trabajo social es el productor del espacio geográfico, por tanto, la categoría central para que sean comprendidos los procesos espaciales. Palabras-Claves: Trabajo, Capital, Geografía, Producción del espacio.  

On Modern Scientific Assessment of the Economic Theory of Marx-Engels-Lenin (Ten Items for Reflection)

2004 ◽  
pp. 111-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Kudrov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Surplus Value ◽  
Scientific Assessment ◽  
General Law

Substantive provisions of the Marx-Engels-Lenin economic theory in comparison with vital realities of XX century are critically considered in the article. Theories of surplus value, labor value, general law of capitalist accumulation, absolute and relative impoverishment of proletariat are examined. The author points to utopianism and inconsistency of Marx's theory and calls Russian economists for creation of new economic theory adequate to challenges of XXI century.

World Economic Crisis and Scenarios of Post-crisis Development: Marxist Analysis

2009 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
A. Buzgalin ◽  
A. Kolganov
Keyword(s):  
State Regulation ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Marxist Analysis ◽  
World Economic ◽  
First World ◽  
World Economic Crisis

Implications of the modern Marxist theory create the opportunity to show the inevitability, the reasons and the main features of the first world crisis of the XXI century. It has been generated by deregulation of economy, which caused the ‘classical’ crisis of overproduction, and by the new contradictions of late capitalism, in particular, by persistent over-accumulation of capital and by the excessive development of the transactional sector, of the fictitious financial capital and its isolation from the real sector. Marxist analysis of social interests and contradictions shows that anti-crisis measures require not only increasing of state regulation, but also determining on behalf of whom and in the interests of what social groups this regulation will be realized. The authors propose to do this on behalf of the financial capital and in the interests of citizens, but also formulate the neoconservative scenario of post-crisis development.

Karl Marx’s Legacy: The Historical Overview

2007 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
R. Nureev
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Neoclassical Economic ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Marxism

The article is devoted to the history of reception and interpretation of the ideas of Marx and Engels. The author considers the reasons for divergence between Marxist and neoclassical economic theories. He also analyzes the ways of vulgarization of Marx’s theory and the making of Marxist voluntarism. It is shown that the works of Marx and Engels had a certain potential for their over-simplified interpretations. The article also considers academic ("Western") Marxism and evaluates the prospects of Marxist theory in the future.

The Attempt to Author the World: How Intellectualism Denies the Individual

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Wheelock
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Existential Theory ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Existential Issues

Although primarily known as a feminist scholar and author of such works as She Came to Stay and The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir contributed heavily to French existential thought. The two writings upon which this paper focuses, The Ethics of Ambiguity and The Woman Destroyed, deal with the existential issues involved in human interactions and personal relationships. The Ethics of Ambiguity, famous as an exploration of the ethical code created by existential theory, begins with a criticism of Marxism and the ways in which it deviates from existentialism. Similarly, the first of the three short stories that make up de Beauvoir’s fictional work The Woman Destroyed follows the French intelligentsia and their similarities and digressions from Marxist and existential thought. In this paper, I seek to analyze Simone de Beauvoir’s criticism of Marxist theory in The Ethics of Ambiguity and its transformation into the critique of intellectualism found twenty years later in The Woman Destroyed. I will investigate Marxism’s alleged attempts to constrain the group it wishes to lead and the motivation behind these actions. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of the efficacy of fiction as a medium for de Beauvoir’s philosophy.

TIGA TEORI KLASIK YANG MENJADI GRAND THEORY PADA AWAL MASA PERKEMBANGAN ILMU PENGETAHUAN SOCIAL

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suwandi S. Sangadji
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Grand Theory

Marxist theory merupakan suatu teori yang terutama berhubungan dengan tingkat struktur sosial tentang kenyataan sosial. Teori ini menekankan pada saling ketergantungan yang tinggi antara struktur sosial dan kondisi materil, dimana individu harus menyesuaikan dirinya supaya tetap hidup dan memenuhi pelbagai kebutuhannya. Penekanan Marx pada penyesuaikan diri dengan lingkungan materil serta sumber-sumber yang dibutuhkan untuk pemenuhan kebutuhan dan keinginan manusia, merupakan satu catatan yang penting mengenai realisme praktis dalam analisa teoritisnya. Weber mengakui bahwa ilmu-ilmu sosial harus berkaitan dengan fenomena spiritual atau ideal, sebagai ciri-ciri khas dari manusia yang tidak berada dalam jangkauan bidang ilmu-ilmu alam. Akan tetapi, pembedaan yang diperlakukan tentang subyek dan obyek tidak harus melibatkan pengorbanan obyektivitas di dalam ilmu-ilmu sosial, atau pembedaan yang menyertakan intuisi sebagai pengganti untuk analisis sebab-musabab yang dapat ditiru. Durkheim berulang kali menekankan di dalam tulisan-tulisannya bahwa sosiologi itu sebagian besar tetap merupakan suatu disiplin filsafat, yang terdiri dari sejumlah generalisasi heterogen yang mencakup segala aspek, serta yang lebih tertumpu pada latar belakang logis dari aturan-aturan a priori dari pada studi empiris yang sistematis. Sosiologi, menurut Durkheim dalam Suicide, masih dalam taraf membangun dengan sistesis-sintesis filsafat

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