On the anti-materialism of the value-form (and its theories): Ontological naturalism and limits to the dialectic of capital
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Marx
Nature
anti-naturalism
eco-marxism
value-form

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Martín , Facundo Nahuel. 2025. “On the Anti-Materialism of the Value-Form (and Its theories): Ontological Naturalism and Limits to the Dialectic of Capital”. Journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica 61 (161). https://doi.org/10.15517/revfil.2022.52576.

Abstract

I will try to articulate the antinaturalist theory of the value-form with eco-Marxist ontological naturalism. I will retrace the systematic dialectic of Christopher Arthur. Since it is non-total, this dialectic refers to something external to value, including nature. The anti-naturalistic theory of value, thus, can be situated in an ontologically naturalistic ecological Marxism.

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