Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2017, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (5): 70-76.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2017.05.009

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The Premise of Creating “Commonwealth” and the Logic of Remaking Productive Labor:A Critical Interpretation to John Holloway's Argument with Hardt and Negri

SUN Liang1,2   

  • Online:2017-09-15 Published:2017-09-28

Abstract:

Based on the wealthy co-form at the age of cognitive capitalism,Hardt and Negri conclude that the production of biopolitical labor contains the possibility of communism.One of the central themes of their revolutionary doctrine of "from capital to class" is the rejection of Hegel's dialectics.Holloway criticizes that they have misunderstood Hegel's dialectics,which has been abandoned with the negative,and eventually led to dependence on capitalism.Consequently,the inherent contradictions of capitalism are ignored and even eliminated.As to the problem of the system of "common wealth",Holloway also believes that the key issue is to overcome existing capitalism,rather than establish an alternative rule system.By reflecting on their argument,we find that it is important to make a breakthrough in Hegelian dialectics for the interpretation of Marxism.However,they thoroughly deny Marx's analysis of the objective basis of capitalism crisis by assuming that capitalist crisis is caused by subjective will,which definitely deviates from the methodology principle of capitalism criticism.

Key words: commonwealth, dialectics, historical materialism