(en) Chile, Periodico-Solidaridad: "Marxism has become more
on ideology than science" (ca) [machine translation]
The researcher and economist John Kornblihtt II began the Marxist Applied Research Seminar
"Capitalist Crisis in Latin America and the role of the state". The initiative organized
by the Marxist Studies Group (GEM) and the Centre for Political Research Social Work
(CIPSTRA) will run until next Friday and seeks to generate more questions than answers.
---- In an auditorium full of University Academy of Christian Humanism the first day he
had starring value theory and logic behind the organization of production under capitalism
began. In this sense, Carlos Riquelme, investigating lawyer and member of GEM , explains
that the purpose is to "provide ideas for applying to Latin American Marxist categories."
---- The guest lecturer of the day is Juan Kornblihtt, CONICET researcher, teacher UBA,
Economist, Doctor of History and militant Reason and Revolution in Argentina.
To Kornblihtt "Marxism has become more on ideology than science" , which is why the
seminar aims to "revive the tradition of scientific socialism over ideologized visions
ceased to be tools for revolutionary transformation".
?Regarding the ongoing review work in academia, Kornblihtt is emphatic: "We can not
abandon the theory, but that does not mean we are doomed to issues of academia, the debate
takes place within it because there occur intellectuals of the working class, but our bet
horizon is the political practice of the working class. "
Further argues that it is necessary to develop a knowledge that explains the
determinations of society scientifically, "The problem is that much of the left denies the
scientific nature of social struggle and based on the appearance believes may supplant the
analysis unfolds determinations of value for the feelings or popular mystical " holds
Kornblihtt.
Notably central part of the seminar will aim to define the role of the state in relation
to capital and intervention from the material reproduction in countries where it
intervenes: "No capitalist relation without the state, is not purely about a role
repressive, on the contrary, the State is part of capital and therefore their intervention
can only think from analyzing the material conditions of reproduction in the countries
where it operates. "
?The seminar will also address the theory of value and its expression in Latin America,
the development of capitalism in the region, and the application of fundamental categories
of Marx in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. In this sense, the formative bet that
has been developing for some time the GEM and CIPSTRA ago, seeks to deepen the themes
presented in workshops and seminars. For those interested, inquiries about registration
and program write an e seminariomarxismo2015@gmail.com and
https://www.facebook.com/estudiosmarxistas?fref=ts
For Solidarity Team
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