Friday, August 28, 2026

Abolition of the labour-form itself. Its distinctive contribution

 Not-Capital: Labour and the Contemporary Critique of Political Economy stakes a precise claim within Marx scholarship: the recovery, systematization, and methodological testing of Marx’s scattered determinations of labour as not-capital and value as not-value, drawn from the preparatory manuscripts to Capital, in order to reorient critique away from the affirmation of labour and toward the abolition of the labour-form itself. Its distinctive contribution lies in showing, with close textual argument and a stringent conceptual economy, that labour functions in Marx as a historically specific negativity immanent to capital’s social form rather than as an external substance awaiting emancipation. 

https://simongros.org/2025/10/14/marxs-not-capital-labour-and-the-contemporary-critique-of-political-economy/

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