Sentido y fundamento de la teoría laboral del valor

  • Luis Alegre Zahonero Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Daniel Iraberri Pérez Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Keywords: Marx, value, prices of production, method, dialectic.

Abstract

The “transformation problem” in Marx’s Capital (how to make compatible the labour theory of value from the first book with “prices of production” from the third book) has been one of the main reasons to refute the marxist theory and, at the same time, a privileged matter in order to analyze the method question. In this paper, we try to analyze the sense and foundation of the labobour theory of value discussing with any attempt of reading Marx Capital as the development of a supposed “dialectic method”. Analyzing the manuscripts and drafts that Marx did not finish, we try to defend that, contrary to what Engels thought (because it had been anounced by Marx himself), it is not possible to find in the third book a trace of the so expected “dialectic solution” to the “transformation problem”. That demands, of course, a different interpretation to explain the sense of the “transformation” of value into “production prices”.

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Published
2011-09-28
How to Cite
Alegre Zahonero L. y Iraberri Pérez D. (2011). Sentido y fundamento de la teoría laboral del valor. Logos. Anales del Seminario de Metafísica, 44, 51-76. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ASEM.2011.v44.36856
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