Exchange-Value and the Concealment of Theft and Violence
| dc.contributor.author | Mulaj, Jeta | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-18T00:44:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-18T00:44:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Exploring the phantom-like objectivity of exchange-value, this paper seeks to analyze the ways in which capitalist exchange relations conceal theft, violence, and exploitation. This paper begins with a critical analysis of Marx’s account of the phantom-like objectivity of exchange-value. Then, the paper elucidates the exchange between the worker and capital as an exchange of non-equivalents, while exploring the ways in which exchange-relations and the wage system conceal unpaid labour inside and outside the working day. Finally, drawing on the work of Silvia Federici and Massimo De Angelis, I argue that exchange-value and the wage system conceal violence and exploitation on at least three levels: unpaid surplus-labour, unpaid reproductive labour, and the permanence of primitive accumulation. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13077 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.26021/221 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Exchange-value, primitive accumulation, surplus-value, Marx, Silvia Federici | en |
| dc.title | Exchange-Value and the Concealment of Theft and Violence | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article |