Aproximación marxista a la relación conocimiento-valor en la economía capitalista contemporánea = Marxist approach to the knowledge-value relationship on the contemporary capitalist economy

Abstract

Knowledge is a special commodity that presents an important difference among its production and reproduction costs. This fact, added to the question of being commodities with nonrivalry on their consumption, and not being degraded by use, implies that knowledge is not susceptible to appropriation. Nevertheless, under the contemporary capitalism conditions, capital is allowed to privatize knowledge, excluding from its benefits those who have no possibility of acquiring it. Human knowledge stops being an value of use, and then it is presented as value of exchange; its potential for emancipation is always facing the barriers erected by private property in order to artificially transform it into a value of exchange. This contradiction will cease on the same measure that the system, ruled by the destructive logic of the commodities production, is transformed into a society of the available time and the production of socially useful goods

Keywords

• capitalismo
• conhecimento
• sociologia