Many movements that claim Marx’s name render his critique harmless by degrading it into a theory of distribution. If labour is affirmed, the struggle is recoded as a fight over the share of value that flows to those who produce it, while the form that makes value possible remains untouched.
Tetler positions his reconstruction as a means to keep critique immanent. A critique of political economy that aims at emancipation must not tacitly affirm the very predicate it wishes to overcome. Therefore, the criterion for the adequacy of a critical program is whether it presupposes labour as the universal intermediary or whether it imagines forms of cooperation that would no longer require equivalence.
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