El valor de uso y la crítica total de la sociedad moderna en la lectura de El capital, de Marx, que propone Bolívar Echeverría

Abstract

For more than three decades, use value and revolution are the focus of Bolivar Echeverria’s reflection. Echeverria constantly ponders this axis that gives continuity to his work and his thought. In this reworking, he created one of his most important essays, “Natural form of Social Reproduction”, first published in 1984 and then, in a new version, under the title of “Use Value: Ontology and Semiotics”, in 1998. A comparison between the two versions shows differences of detail, but, really, these are changes in theoretical and political perspective of Echeverria. Considered more closely, these differences development fundamental problems, and it promises progress for critical thinking. In these notes I try to clarify this promise.

Keywords

• Valor de uso
• Revolución
• Productivismo occidental
• Progesismo economicista del capitalismo
• Estatalismo político burgués
• Capitalismo