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Ponte Academic Journal
Jun 2017, Volume 73, Issue 6

RETHINKING KARL MARX’S ‘ARBEITSWERTTHEORIE’: A SEEMINGLY IDEALISTIC JUSTIFICATION FOR ‘HISTORISCHE MATERIALISMUS’

Author(s): YueQian LIU ,HongYu YAO

J. Ponte - Jun 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 6
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.6.42



Abstract:
Majority of rigidly conservative fundamentalists of Marxism steadfastly maintain that spacetime has only one form completely objective: the natural spacetime. However, if stick to this point of view too harshly, we must acknowledge the exclusive materiality of labour and its products, so that ‘Arbeitswerttheorie’ (labour theory of value) cannot be well applied to evaluate multifarious kinds of immaterial labour bred by the variety of new economies fertilized by novel technologies. As a result, will close ‘Historische Materialismus’ (historical materialism). Therefore, the authors dedicate a seemingly idealistic justification for the backbone of Marxism by introducing an inventive notion—social spacetime, with which the conception of labour plus its relevant topics is briefly studied in order to reopen Marxism in the post-industrial era of globalization.
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