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Interview with Werner Bonefeld by Jorge del Arco Ortiz. ; Entrevista a Werner Bonefeld a cargo de Jorge del Arco Ortiz.

This article offers a reply to Werner Bonefeld's recent contribution to the debate on value and abstract labour, in which he critically engages with our previous articles dealing with these questions. We argue that Bonefeld's criticisms are not simply based on disagreements over these controversial issues, but also on a misunderstanding of our stance on abstract labour and value. In addition to clarifying our position, the article provides some brief critical remarks on Bonefeld's own intervention in the debate and shows that his contribution fails to offer a solid analysis of the fundamental categories of the critique of political economy.

"Werner Bonefeld thematisiert die Kritik der politischen Ökonomie als konstitutionstheoretische Kritik der "fetischistischen", weil scheinbar "voraussetzungslosen" gesellschaftlichen Objektivität des Kapitals. Als Konstitutionstheorie des "ontologischen Scheins" der objektiven Verkehrsformen der bürgerlichen Ökonomie und einer ihnen gegenüber stehenden privatautonomen Vereinzelung der Individuen dechiffriert die Marxsche Ökonomiekritik demzufolge beide Momente als Ausdruck eines gesellschaftlichen Verselbständigungsprozesses. Dabei wird insbesondere die ursprüngliche Akkumulation als historisches Konstituens des fetischistischen Charakters der kapitalistischen Reproduktionsstruktur diskutiert, um so schließlich zu verdeutlichen, dass allein deren historische "Umkehrung" und damit die "Abschaffung der Arbeit" überhaupt hinreichende Bedingung einer "vernünftigen", nicht-verdinglichten Einheit der Individuen sein kann." (Autorenreferat)

Johannes Agnoli's death in 2003 deprived us of one of the most important thinkers of the categorical imperative of human emancipation.

In a discussion of the "politics of novelty," it is asserted that "new Left" critiques of political economy have adopted neoliberalism's representation of the market being guided by an "invisible hand." An overview of developments in the Left since the 1960s illustrates how the downfall of "really existing socialism" during the late 1980s contributed to the abandonment of Karl Marx's negative critique. Moreover, a review of contemporary scholarship, especially Ulrich Beck's (1992) notion of risk society, demonstrates how Marx's negative critique has been replaced by the notion of totality; such scholarship fails to scrutinize the social & historical constitution of the notion of totality. Three developments present in new left literature since the mid-1970s are identified, including the inability of Marxist thought to analyze certain phenomena. It is concluded that Marxist scholarship since the 1960s has been "fashion-driven" & has relinquished its authority to the academic industry. 6 References. J. W. Parker

AbstractThe 'politics of novelty' seems a somewhat strange if not straightforwardly bizarre topic. What is meant by 'novelty' and under what sort of conditions would one be able to think of 'novelty' in terms of a politics? What does politics have to do with 'novelty', and conversely, 'novelty' with 'polities'?