Communal system, labour division and value: Theoretical contributions to a solidarity beyond capital

Abstract

The answer to the working class historical challenge for its self-determination demands an adequate comprehension about the structural limits and emergent potentialities perpetrated by the established sociometabolic order. In this sense, we consider that the development of a communal system of social reproduction must overcome the following structures: the social division of labour, the capital-consisted forms of property and the mercantile exchange. Yet, in spite of the large marxian debate about the labour control of production and the transcendence of the market and private property, it seems that there is no consensual thesis referring to the intended forms of labour division and social exchange supported by a viable project towards a socialist society. Therefore, as a form of contribution, the article aims to be an essay on the very theoretical foundations of labour self-management, its repercussions to the labour organization and control over the labour process in a post-capital scenario as well as the transformation of value according to the utility degree contained in the social production within a communal system.

Keywords: communal system, self-management, labour division, value.