Marx, machinery and large industry: the technological development in book i of Das Kapital

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https://doi.org/10.31977/grirfi.v16i2.780

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Capital; Competition; Class struggle; Surplus-value; Technology.

Abstract

The present work recovers Marx’s thought on technological development, from his famous 13th chapter “Machinery and large industry” (Maschinerie und große Industrie), which belongs to Book I of Das Kapital. Throughout this work, fundamental questions such as capital accumulation, competition and (capitalist) compulsion for surplus value (absolute and relative), the role of class struggle in this respect and how social relations (of production) influence the technological development will be succinctly analyzed. In the end, the contradictions of technology are revealed given the capitalist social relations of production.

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Paulo Fernando Rocha Antunes, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL)

Doutorando em Filosofia Política Contemporânea pelo Programa de pós-graduação da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL), Portugal. Bolseiro da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), apoiado pelo orçamento comunitário através do FSE. Membro do Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (CFUL) integrado no Grupo de investigação PRAXIS e Núcleo de Estudos Políticos da Universidade de Lisboa (nepUL). Membro do Grupo de Estudos Marxistas (GEM).

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2017-12-18

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ANTUNES, Paulo Fernando Rocha. Marx, machinery and large industry: the technological development in book i of Das Kapital. Griot : Revista de Filosofia, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 2, p. 36–55, 2017. DOI: 10.31977/grirfi.v16i2.780. Disponível em: https://www3.ufrb.edu.br/index.php/griot/article/view/780. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

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