Value without Fetish Uno Kzs Theory of Pure Capitalism in Light of Marxs Critique of Political Economy (Historical Materialism)

588 Pages·2021·1.927 MB·English

by  Elena Louisa Lange, University of Zurich

ValuewithoutFetish
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Value without Fetish
UnoKōzō’sTheoryof ‘PureCapitalism’inLightof
Marx’sCritiqueof PoliticalEconomy
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
NoteonTranslationsandTranscriptions x
part 1
TheMethodof TheCritiqueof PoliticalEconomy
1 Introduction–Marx’sCritiqueofFetishismasMethod 3
1.1 TheCritiqueofFetishismandUno’sTheoryof‘PureCapitalism’ 14
1.2 TheAporiasofClassicalPoliticalEconomy 34
1.3 TheCriticalFunctionofMarx’sLabourTheoryofValue.Against
SomeReadingsof‘Form’inContemporaryValueFormTheory 48
2 What’s‘Pure’aboutCapitalism?Uno’sThree-LevelMethodandthe
TheoryofPrinciples 61
2.1 TheLimitstotheThreeLevel-Method(sandankairon) 69
2.2 PureTheory’sX-Axis:TheLawofPopulation 115
2.3 PureTheory’sY-Axis:TheCommodificationofLabourPower 135
part 2
TheObjectof TheCritiqueof PoliticalEconomy
3 Uno’sTheoryofValue–ValuewithoutFetish(1947–69) 155
3.1 TheProblemofAbstractLabourinUno’sTheoryofValue 159
3.2 Uno’sTheoryofValue:MethodologicalIndividualismandthe
FetishismofUseValue 184
3.3 Uno’sTheoryofMoney:BaileyanAssumptions 211
3.4 Uno’sTheoryofCapital:M-C-M’asPureForm 247
4 ThePrinciplesofPoliticalEconomy(KeizaiGenron,1952/1964)inLightof
Marx’sCritiqueofPoliticalEconomy 259
4.1 TheReconstructionofCapital 261
4.2 TheLawofValueastheLawofGeneralSocialEquilibrium
(Uno) 297
4.3 SurplusValueandProfit:The‘TransformationProblem’inUno’s
Perspective 332
4.4 TheLawofValueastheLawofCrisis(Marx) 376
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5 Uno’sLegacyinJapanandBeyond 423
5.1 Moneyvs.Value?The‘MonetaryApproach’inthePost-UnoSchoolof
ValueTheory 427
5.2 The‘DialecticofCapital’astheApologeticofCapitalinthe
AnglophoneUnoSchool 462
5.3 TheMeaningofRealSubsumptionortheRealSubsumptionof
Meaning:AspectsofAnglophoneUnoSchoolHistoriographies 498
References 539
IndexofNames 561
IndexofSubjects 564
Acknowledgements
ManypersonalthankstoRajiC.Steineck,RiccardoBellofiore,PatrickMurray,
JeanneSchuler,FredMoseley,SaitōKōhei,AgonHamza,IngoStützle,Michael
Heinrich,IngoElbe,NamikoHolzapfel,NobutakeKamiya,MishimaKenichi,
Nick Nesbitt, Joshua Pickett-Depaolis, Eric-John Russell, MarenThom, Jacob
Blumenfeld,ChristianUhl,FrankEngster,WernerBonefeld,JanHoff,Andrés
SáenzdeSicilia,andChrisO’Kane.
MoishePostone’sandŌtaniTeinosuke’ssupport,adviceandgoodspiritsare
painfullymissed.
ThankstothediscussantsoftheValue-FormGroupforbeing‘ruthlesscritics
ofallthatexists’.
ManythankstoJanSteinerforhisinvaluable,andspontaneous,help.
Specialthankstomypatientparents,HorstandDonka.
Extraspecialthankstotheloveofmylife,F.
Apartoftheresearchconductedforthisbookhasbeenfinanciallysupported
bytheSwissNationalScienceFoundation(snsf).
Note onTranslations andTranscriptions
AlltranslationsfrommaterialswritteninlanguagesotherthanEnglishareours,
unlessotherwiseindicated.Allnon-Englishtermsareindicatedbyitalics.
FortransliterationsofJapanese,weusetheModifiedHepburnSystemwith
themacronindicationalongvowel,e.g.ryūtsū-ron.TermsinJapanese,inpar-
ticular proper nouns that have an established usage in English (e.g. Tokyo)
remainunmodified.
JapanesenamesaregivenintheJapaneseorder:familynamefirstandgiven
namelast(e.g.UnoKōzō),unlesstheperson’spennamehasbeenestablished
accordingtotheEnglishcustom(e.g.MakotoItohinsteadofItōMakoto).