Formacja kapitalistyczna jako system marnotrawczy

• Authors: Ariel Modrzyk

Title variants

EN

Capitalism as a System of Wastage

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The idea of waste is used by left thinking authors rather incidentally. In the text author tries to conceptualise category of waste and shows main critical moments when waste phenomenon is actualized. Hereby the idea of waste is introduced to left thought dictionary. Author underlines two main areas of waste in modern capitalism. First is commodity waste which is caused by too big supply and/or demand. Second is waste of labour force. It includes such phenomena as unemployment, house work and ineffective work. Author concludes that capitalism is wasteful economical system. Although we can not think abut systems that are not wasteful at all because it does not exist. We can analyse level of waste and its function. In capitalist society its function is maintenance of principle of profit and private property.

Keywords

EN

waste; capitalist formation; commodity; labour; exchange value; use value

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Szczeciński
• Journal: Nowa Krytyka
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 30/31
• Pages: 55-72

Contributors

author

Ariel Modrzyk

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu