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Tutkimus & kritiikki
Paula Rauhala arvioi Marcello Muston teoksen: Marcello Musto: Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to ... more Paula Rauhala arvioi Marcello Muston teoksen: Marcello Musto: Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International. Kääntänyt Patrick Camiller. Bloomsbury Academic 2018. 288 s.
Tutkimus ja kritiikki, 2021
Osa marxilaisista tai marxilaisesti inspiroituneista yhteiskuntatieteilijöistä on hylännyt Marxin... more Osa marxilaisista tai marxilaisesti inspiroituneista yhteiskuntatieteilijöistä on hylännyt Marxin kapitalismikritiikin taloustieteellisen ja kvantitatiivisen puolen, vaikka pitääkin kiin-ni luokkanäkökulmasta ja osasta Marxin kapitalismikritiikkiä. Tässä artikkelissa pohdin, miksi näin on käynyt ja millaisia poliittisia seurauksia tällä siirrolla on. Kirjoitus on jatkoa toisaalla julkaistulle artikkelilleni "Tietotyö ja arvo" (Rauhala 2013). Tuossa artikkelissa arvostelin Jussi Vähämäen ja Eetu Virenin sinänsä mainiota kirjaa Perinnöttömien perinne (Tutkijaliitto 2011) siitä, että he hylkäävät Marxin arvoteorian uuden talouden analyysi-välineenä liian kevyin perustein. Käsitykseni mukaan Marxin kapitalismianalyysi palvelisi myös kirjan kirjoittajien päämääriä. Siksi esitän, että asiaa tulisi vielä arvioida uudelleen. Marxin arvoteoria Marx lähtee siitä, että jokaisen yhteiskunnan on tuotettava, jaettava tuot-teet ja kulutettava. Taloudessa on Marxin mukaan aina viime kädes...
The translation of Capital in Finnish appeared in 1913-1918. The fact that Marx’s major work was ... more The translation of Capital in Finnish appeared in 1913-1918. The fact that Marx’s major work was published only some 15 years later than the Finnish Labour Party was founded in 1899 is closely connected to the other main theme of the conference, the Russian Revolution. In the beginning of the 20 th century the Grand Duchy of Finland was an economically and culturally autonomous part of the Russian empire. The 1905 revolution materialized in Finland as a general strike and mass demonstrations. In the wake of these events, a number of young intellectuals entered the Social Democratic Party. Among them was Edvard Gylling (1881-1937), who in 1908 forced through the decision of translating Capital into Finnish. The project was financed by the Finnish government. Such a project would most probably have been impossible without the revolutionary situation of 1905, without which Finnish worker's movement would not have gained the universal suffrage in 1906, as first in Europe. The great ...
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, 2019
Neue Marx Lekture was probably the most popular school of Marxism in Germany at the time of the 1... more Neue Marx Lekture was probably the most popular school of Marxism in Germany at the time of the 150th Anniversary of Capital and the Bicentennial of Marx’s Birth in 2017–18. In its reading of Capital, Neue Marx Lekture emphasizes Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism instead of the theory of surplus value. This reading of Capital was formulated by the students of the first generation of the Frankfurt School around the centennial anniversary of Capital and 150th anniversary of Marx’s birth in 1967–68. It will be argued that an interpretation of Capital that emphasized the concept of fetishism and impersonal domination in Marx’s theory of capitalism, instead of class rule, answered the problems encountered by some readers of Capital in Frankfurt in the late 1960s better than a more traditional reading. It will be argued, however, that these ideas are becoming more and more anachronistic, as the world has changed from what it was in 1968. It is claimed that a more traditional reading, in which the concept of fetishism can only be understood correctly in connection to the theory of surplus value, is a more topical reading of Capital, and it answers better the problems of today.
Tiede & edistys, 2016
Kirjallisuusarvostel
Marxism started with a revolt against its nurse-Hegel's philosophy. In 1845 in Brussels, as Marx ... more Marxism started with a revolt against its nurse-Hegel's philosophy. In 1845 in Brussels, as Marx remembered, he and Engels decided to 'settle accounts with our erstwhile philosophical conscience (Gewissen)'.1 The radical error of Hegelianism consists in the belief that ideas rule over the world, and the whole history of mankind is some 'other-being' of pure ideas. So Marx and Engels intended to turn philosophy upside down-to drive away philosophy, with its 'drunken speculation', from the 'science of history' (Wissenschaft der Geschichte), and to depict reality as it is, materialistically. The subject of philosophy had been narrowed down to the 'realm of pure thoughts'. Das Reich des reinen Gedankens is the only thing that falls to the share of philosophy after the expulsion of it from nature and history by 'positive sciences', Engels declares.2 To study the laws of the thought process-formal logic and the dialectical method-is all that philosophers could do with profijit to the cause. All the other 'philosophical chattels' became useless for a scientifijic understanding of reality. Very soon after, however, Georgy Plekhanov and his pupils resurrected philosophy as a science about all and everything: 'the general synthetic view on nature and life'.3 Later, the drawing of a philosophical picture of the world, à la Comte or Eugen Dühring, becomes the favourite business of Soviet Diamat.
The Dissemination of Marx's Capital in the World (1867-2017) Our panel will present an ongoin... more The Dissemination of Marx's Capital in the World (1867-2017) Our panel will present an ongoing book project: “ The Routledge Handbook of Marx's 'Capital': A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception”. Edited by Marcello Musto and Babak Amini. The purpose of the project is to reconstruct the history of the dissemination and reception of Marx’s Capital throughout the world. This collective research will be published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Capital (1867 - 2017) and will represent the only complete account of the translations of Marx’s magnum opus ever made. In our panel Babak Amini will present the forthcoming volume. The papers of Babak Amini, Paula Rauhala and Jussi Silvonen and a fourth contributor (yet to be confirmed) will concentrate on the histories of translation, dissemination and reception of Capital in different parts of the world. Babak Amini Dissemination and reception of Capital in the United State...
Historical Materialism, 2021
Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue th... more Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue that one cannot estimate the amounts of socially necessary labour time that lie behind the prices, an interpretation usually ascribed to the West German Neue Marx‑Lektüre. As Hans-Georg Backhaus began fleshing out his monetary interpretation in the early 1970s, he referred explicitly to debate among economists in early‑1960s East Germany about the possibility of estimating quantities of labour value in terms of commodities’ labour content. In fact, scholars who articulated a powerful position in the latter discussion closely approximated the Neue Marx-Lektüre’s ‘monetary interpretation’. They held that expressing labour value in terms of labour time is impossible: the substance of value is not a measurable quantity of labour time but, rather, a social relation. Hence, it is problematic that Neue Marx-Lektüre adherents today should maintain an inaccurate contrast between their reading of Ca...
Socialism and Democracy, 2020
The “late Marx” has recently received increasing attention in research literature. Marcello Musto... more The “late Marx” has recently received increasing attention in research literature. Marcello Musto reproaches the existing biographies for portraying Marx as a person whose energies had been drained...
Dialectics of the Ideal
The first book Evald Ilyenkov published was the 1960 work, Dialektika abstraktnogo i konkretnogo ... more The first book Evald Ilyenkov published was the 1960 work, Dialektika abstraktnogo i konkretnogo v 'Kapitale' Marksa (The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's Capital). The original manuscript was prepared back in 1956, but because it seemed to contain too many controversial assertions which deviated from the standard Diamat view on how Marxist philosophy should be interpreted, it disappeared into the desk drawer of the then all-powerful academician Pyotr Fedoseev. There are different value-form theories; the value-form approach includes authors who underestimate the quantitative side of the theory of value and question abstract labour as the substance of value. The substance of value has been re-interpreted as a reduction taking place in the market, through money, and its definition as 'a productive expenditure of human brains, nerves, and muscles' is rejected. Keywords: dialectics; Evald Ilyenkov; Marxist philosophy; Pyotr Fedoseev; value-form debate
Historical Materialism 29.2, 2021
Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue th... more Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue that one cannot estimate the amounts of socially necessary labour time that lie behind the prices, an interpretation usually ascribed to the West German Neue Marx‑Lektüre. As Hans-Georg Backhaus began fleshing out his monetary interpretation in the early 1970s, he referred explicitly to debate among economists in early‑1960s East Germany about the possibility of estimating quantities of labour value in terms of commodities’ labour content. In fact, scholars who articulated a powerful position in the latter discussion closely approximated the Neue Marx-Lektüre’s ‘monetary interpretation’. They held that expressing labour value in terms of labour time is impossible: the substance of value is not a measurable quantity of labour time but, rather, a social relation. Hence, it is problematic that Neue Marx-Lektüre adherents today should maintain an inaccurate contrast between their reading of Ca...
Tutkimus & kritiikki
Paula Rauhala arvioi Marcello Muston teoksen: Marcello Musto: Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to ... more Paula Rauhala arvioi Marcello Muston teoksen: Marcello Musto: Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International. Kääntänyt Patrick Camiller. Bloomsbury Academic 2018. 288 s.
Tutkimus ja kritiikki, 2021
Osa marxilaisista tai marxilaisesti inspiroituneista yhteiskuntatieteilijöistä on hylännyt Marxin... more Osa marxilaisista tai marxilaisesti inspiroituneista yhteiskuntatieteilijöistä on hylännyt Marxin kapitalismikritiikin taloustieteellisen ja kvantitatiivisen puolen, vaikka pitääkin kiin-ni luokkanäkökulmasta ja osasta Marxin kapitalismikritiikkiä. Tässä artikkelissa pohdin, miksi näin on käynyt ja millaisia poliittisia seurauksia tällä siirrolla on. Kirjoitus on jatkoa toisaalla julkaistulle artikkelilleni "Tietotyö ja arvo" (Rauhala 2013). Tuossa artikkelissa arvostelin Jussi Vähämäen ja Eetu Virenin sinänsä mainiota kirjaa Perinnöttömien perinne (Tutkijaliitto 2011) siitä, että he hylkäävät Marxin arvoteorian uuden talouden analyysi-välineenä liian kevyin perustein. Käsitykseni mukaan Marxin kapitalismianalyysi palvelisi myös kirjan kirjoittajien päämääriä. Siksi esitän, että asiaa tulisi vielä arvioida uudelleen. Marxin arvoteoria Marx lähtee siitä, että jokaisen yhteiskunnan on tuotettava, jaettava tuot-teet ja kulutettava. Taloudessa on Marxin mukaan aina viime kädes...
The translation of Capital in Finnish appeared in 1913-1918. The fact that Marx’s major work was ... more The translation of Capital in Finnish appeared in 1913-1918. The fact that Marx’s major work was published only some 15 years later than the Finnish Labour Party was founded in 1899 is closely connected to the other main theme of the conference, the Russian Revolution. In the beginning of the 20 th century the Grand Duchy of Finland was an economically and culturally autonomous part of the Russian empire. The 1905 revolution materialized in Finland as a general strike and mass demonstrations. In the wake of these events, a number of young intellectuals entered the Social Democratic Party. Among them was Edvard Gylling (1881-1937), who in 1908 forced through the decision of translating Capital into Finnish. The project was financed by the Finnish government. Such a project would most probably have been impossible without the revolutionary situation of 1905, without which Finnish worker's movement would not have gained the universal suffrage in 1906, as first in Europe. The great ...
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, 2019
Neue Marx Lekture was probably the most popular school of Marxism in Germany at the time of the 1... more Neue Marx Lekture was probably the most popular school of Marxism in Germany at the time of the 150th Anniversary of Capital and the Bicentennial of Marx’s Birth in 2017–18. In its reading of Capital, Neue Marx Lekture emphasizes Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism instead of the theory of surplus value. This reading of Capital was formulated by the students of the first generation of the Frankfurt School around the centennial anniversary of Capital and 150th anniversary of Marx’s birth in 1967–68. It will be argued that an interpretation of Capital that emphasized the concept of fetishism and impersonal domination in Marx’s theory of capitalism, instead of class rule, answered the problems encountered by some readers of Capital in Frankfurt in the late 1960s better than a more traditional reading. It will be argued, however, that these ideas are becoming more and more anachronistic, as the world has changed from what it was in 1968. It is claimed that a more traditional reading, in which the concept of fetishism can only be understood correctly in connection to the theory of surplus value, is a more topical reading of Capital, and it answers better the problems of today.
Tiede & edistys, 2016
Kirjallisuusarvostel
Marxism started with a revolt against its nurse-Hegel's philosophy. In 1845 in Brussels, as Marx ... more Marxism started with a revolt against its nurse-Hegel's philosophy. In 1845 in Brussels, as Marx remembered, he and Engels decided to 'settle accounts with our erstwhile philosophical conscience (Gewissen)'.1 The radical error of Hegelianism consists in the belief that ideas rule over the world, and the whole history of mankind is some 'other-being' of pure ideas. So Marx and Engels intended to turn philosophy upside down-to drive away philosophy, with its 'drunken speculation', from the 'science of history' (Wissenschaft der Geschichte), and to depict reality as it is, materialistically. The subject of philosophy had been narrowed down to the 'realm of pure thoughts'. Das Reich des reinen Gedankens is the only thing that falls to the share of philosophy after the expulsion of it from nature and history by 'positive sciences', Engels declares.2 To study the laws of the thought process-formal logic and the dialectical method-is all that philosophers could do with profijit to the cause. All the other 'philosophical chattels' became useless for a scientifijic understanding of reality. Very soon after, however, Georgy Plekhanov and his pupils resurrected philosophy as a science about all and everything: 'the general synthetic view on nature and life'.3 Later, the drawing of a philosophical picture of the world, à la Comte or Eugen Dühring, becomes the favourite business of Soviet Diamat.
The Dissemination of Marx's Capital in the World (1867-2017) Our panel will present an ongoin... more The Dissemination of Marx's Capital in the World (1867-2017) Our panel will present an ongoing book project: “ The Routledge Handbook of Marx's 'Capital': A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception”. Edited by Marcello Musto and Babak Amini. The purpose of the project is to reconstruct the history of the dissemination and reception of Marx’s Capital throughout the world. This collective research will be published on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Capital (1867 - 2017) and will represent the only complete account of the translations of Marx’s magnum opus ever made. In our panel Babak Amini will present the forthcoming volume. The papers of Babak Amini, Paula Rauhala and Jussi Silvonen and a fourth contributor (yet to be confirmed) will concentrate on the histories of translation, dissemination and reception of Capital in different parts of the world. Babak Amini Dissemination and reception of Capital in the United State...
Historical Materialism, 2021
Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue th... more Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue that one cannot estimate the amounts of socially necessary labour time that lie behind the prices, an interpretation usually ascribed to the West German Neue Marx‑Lektüre. As Hans-Georg Backhaus began fleshing out his monetary interpretation in the early 1970s, he referred explicitly to debate among economists in early‑1960s East Germany about the possibility of estimating quantities of labour value in terms of commodities’ labour content. In fact, scholars who articulated a powerful position in the latter discussion closely approximated the Neue Marx-Lektüre’s ‘monetary interpretation’. They held that expressing labour value in terms of labour time is impossible: the substance of value is not a measurable quantity of labour time but, rather, a social relation. Hence, it is problematic that Neue Marx-Lektüre adherents today should maintain an inaccurate contrast between their reading of Ca...
Socialism and Democracy, 2020
The “late Marx” has recently received increasing attention in research literature. Marcello Musto... more The “late Marx” has recently received increasing attention in research literature. Marcello Musto reproaches the existing biographies for portraying Marx as a person whose energies had been drained...
Dialectics of the Ideal
The first book Evald Ilyenkov published was the 1960 work, Dialektika abstraktnogo i konkretnogo ... more The first book Evald Ilyenkov published was the 1960 work, Dialektika abstraktnogo i konkretnogo v 'Kapitale' Marksa (The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's Capital). The original manuscript was prepared back in 1956, but because it seemed to contain too many controversial assertions which deviated from the standard Diamat view on how Marxist philosophy should be interpreted, it disappeared into the desk drawer of the then all-powerful academician Pyotr Fedoseev. There are different value-form theories; the value-form approach includes authors who underestimate the quantitative side of the theory of value and question abstract labour as the substance of value. The substance of value has been re-interpreted as a reduction taking place in the market, through money, and its definition as 'a productive expenditure of human brains, nerves, and muscles' is rejected. Keywords: dialectics; Evald Ilyenkov; Marxist philosophy; Pyotr Fedoseev; value-form debate
Historical Materialism 29.2, 2021
Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue th... more Proponents of a monetary interpretation of Marx’s theory of value (monetäre Werttheorie) argue that one cannot estimate the amounts of socially necessary labour time that lie behind the prices, an interpretation usually ascribed to the West German Neue Marx‑Lektüre. As Hans-Georg Backhaus began fleshing out his monetary interpretation in the early 1970s, he referred explicitly to debate among economists in early‑1960s East Germany about the possibility of estimating quantities of labour value in terms of commodities’ labour content. In fact, scholars who articulated a powerful position in the latter discussion closely approximated the Neue Marx-Lektüre’s ‘monetary interpretation’. They held that expressing labour value in terms of labour time is impossible: the substance of value is not a measurable quantity of labour time but, rather, a social relation. Hence, it is problematic that Neue Marx-Lektüre adherents today should maintain an inaccurate contrast between their reading of Ca...