当代危机与价值的无时序性

The Current Crisis and the Anachronism of Value

面对近几十年来的总体结构性社会转型,再加上2008年的经济危机及其余波,以资本主义为焦点的当代社会研究路径变得更为普遍。然而,在这些讨论中,"资本主义"到底如何被理解,这一理解又如何帮助厘清当代全球危机,并不十分清晰。将马克思《资本论》重新解读为历史特定的、抽象统治形式的理论,以价值这一资本所特有的财富时间性形式为基础,将极大增加社会的一般知识,服务于人类解放的基础。然而,如果被价值束缚,这一知识将服务于强化统治。这样一种路径,基于价值日益增长的非时序性思想,将有助于理解环境恶化与劳动社会空洞化的双重根本性危机。同时,这一方法也将有助于建构新的转型政治的总体框架。

In the face of the overarching structural social transformations of recent decades, highlighted by the crash of 2008 and its aftermath, approaches to contemporary society that focus on capitalism have become more widespread. Nevertheless, it is not always evident in these various discussions how ＂capitalism＂ is understood and how that understanding helps illuminate the contemporary global crisis. This paper suggests that a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx＇s Capital as a theory of a historically specific, abstract form of domination, grounded in value, a temporal form of wealth unique to capitalism, which generates enormous increases in socially general knowledge that could serve as the basis for human emancipation. However, bound to value, such knowledge serves to reinforce domination. Such an approach, based on the idea of the growing anachronism of value, could illuminate the fundamental dual crisis of environmental degradation and the hollowing out of working society. At the same time, it might be able to contribute to the constitution of a new overarching framework for transformative politics.