The immanence of capital: Marx and technics
Karl Marx; Capital; Technique; Surplus Value; Subsumption
The paper aims to analyze the development of technique in Karl Marx. To achieve this, it undertakes a theoretical and bibliographic review of the capitalist mode of production in Marx through the texts Manuscripts of 1961-1963, Grundrisse, and Capital I. In each of the historical stages, the text examines the technical developments of capital and what led the capitalist mode of production to revolutionize each of them, emphasizing Marxian concepts such as surplus value and subsumption. Subsequently, the text specifically discusses the meanings of technique in Marx, reviewing the inferences throughout the analysis of the capitalist mode of production and discussing the meanings attributed by criticism. Thus, the text proposes a material sense of technique in Marx, as means of production, and an abstract sense, as means to ends, which is constructed as an immanent impulse throughout the history of the capitalist mode of production.