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Filtzer, Donald

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“…For Rubin, Marx’s methodological innovation was to differentiate material–technical aspects of economic phenomena from their social forms. This is the crucial methodological turn, since it ‘defines the method of political economy as social and historical science ’ (Rubin, 1979 [1929]: 4).…”

Section: Analysis Of Social Forms and Real Mechanisms As A Methodologymentioning

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“…. to social forms of economy’ (Rubin, 1979 [1929]: 31, 43) makes it a uniquely sociological method with both historical and sociological character.…”

Section: Analysis Of Social Forms and Real Mechanisms As A Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Marx’s critique, Rubin (1979 [1929]: 148) noted, shows that in political economy ‘capital’s social form’ was ignored, with the focus instead being on ‘the technical functions of those means of production which function as capital’. This approach of political economists when they ‘derive social phenomena directly from technical phenomena’ (Rubin, 1979 [1929]: 28), or, in Marx’s (1978 [1864]) words, when formal economic characteristic that arises from the circulation of value is confused with a concrete [ dinglich ] property; as if things, which are never capital at all in themselves, could already in themselves and by nature in capital in a definite form (p. 241)…”

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Social Forms Beyond Value: Public Wealth and Its Contradictions

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Žitko

2023

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Revisiting the history of the development of software and communication technologies, this article demonstrates that while the early techno-utopian theories have been balanced by more sombre approaches, the emancipatory potential of productions whose outputs do not take the commodity form deserves further theoretical reflection. Social form and value-form literature provides a way to rethink publicly financed activities and activities of software communities as a variety of social forms of wealth and productions within capitalist social formations. Public wealth, it is argued, is a useful umbrella concept to approach the forms of wealth in the sphere of software, media and communication. With digitally storable matter, due to its replicability at near zero cost, it is of utmost importance that the state provides an institutional framework, primarily for capital, but also for public wealth, to be coded. In this setting, legal form, its content and function play a key role in the contested reproduction between forms of public wealth and capital.

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Section: Analysis Of Social Forms and Real Mechanisms As A Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. to social forms of economy’ (Rubin, 1979 [1929]: 31, 43) makes it a uniquely sociological method with both historical and sociological character.…”

Section: Analysis Of Social Forms and Real Mechanisms As A Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%