O capital sujeito histórico de Postone:

Identidade e diferença

Abstract

It is argued in this paper that Postone's reconstruction of "Capital" is based on a dialectic of identity in which differences appear to be collapsed into equality. In this way all the differences that arise within capital as an apparently automatic process of valorization of value are collapsed by Postone into the subject capital and the categories of the first four chapters of "Capital". Thus Postone makes the class struggle disappear as a possibility of overcoming capital and the working class as a potential revolutionary subject, contrary to what Marx does in "Capital". The article concludes that Postone makes a materialist inversion of postmodernism, adopting its conception of power, denying the revolutionary subject and aiming at the overcoming of the subject, totality and dialectics