The dialectics of time in Das Kapital:The temporal narrative of capital logic and its liberation
The concept of time in Das Kapital is closely linked to the critique of capital.Marx's analysis in the book points out that time has the duality of being concrete and abstract under the effect of capital.Concrete time is combined with individual social labor,while abstract time is manifested as an independent movement of value.Capital turnover and time transformation are interwoven and infiltrated,and the construction of capital logic is reflected in the transformation from concrete time to abstract time norm.As a coercive force that abstracts time,capital controls individual life time within its structure,which leads to the alienation of the laborer in an inevitable state of slavery and domination.In addition to the construction of the abstract governing structure of time,the capitalism also creates a historical dynamic to disintegrate the logic of capital,that is,the free time from the abstract back to the concrete.The space for the proliferation of capital derives from the compressed free time at the hands of workers,and only when the critique at the capital"stands for a class,"can laborers truly overturn the abstract rule of time over individuals.To transcend capital completely,it is necessary to liberate free time throughout the whole society.Only in a socialist society can time be transformed from the space of alienated labor to the space of free development.The above analysis that Marx makes in his Das Kapital not only solves the"mystery of capital",but also solves the"mystery of time"and the"mystery of freedom,"disclosing the logical limit of capital,and meanwhile pointing out the direction for the human free liberation in the contemporary socialist world.
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