THE SOCIAL CRHYSALIS OF VALUE:

LABOUR, COMMODITY AND EQUIV ALENT

Authors

  • Henrique Wellen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i4.49678

Keywords:

Marx, Commodity, Value, Equivalent, Abstract labour

Abstract

The aim was to analyse how the relations between commodities, within the society where the capitalist mode of production prevails, manifest the social wealth and constitute themselves as parameters for the determination of value. In this sense, taking as reference the four forms of value presented by Karl Marx in Capital (elementary or accidental form of value; total or expanded form of value; the general form of value; and the money form), was examined the transition from the relative quality of value to its position of economic sovereignty. It was also intended to distinguish historical and logical peculiarities from this dynamic, as well to indicate impacts that metamorphose labour, and to raise its abstract quality to social validity.

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Author Biography

Henrique Wellen

Professor de Serviço Social da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Doutor em Serviço Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Realizou pós-doutorado em Teoria Política na University of Kent (Inglaterra).

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Published

2019-12-16