LUCIANO
AMODIO
n.
1/1984
Summary — The Luxemburg model of
the accumulation is based on the extension
to the course of the total
social capital - sum though algebraic of the movements of individual capitals
– of the
conatus, peculiar
as a
definition to the single capital, to produce, accumulate and realize
plus-value. The development
of such model is mainly of an
extensive nature and the technical progress is expressed solely in the form of
the increase of the rate of organic composition
of the capital. Given these
conditions, the Luxemburg conclusion of the inevitability of a recourse to
foreign markets can be taken as correct. But,
also in this case, under many forms, and above all through the degradation of
the non-capitalistic environment, the capital does not confine itself to absorb
and destroy natural economy, and consequently its foreign markets, but recreates
continually by its demand the value with which to exchange, the “third persons”
of the foreign market it needs. Anyhow, the initial hypotheses are wrong
or unilateral: the form of intensive development is not investigated, not are
other types of technical progress taken into consideration. The basic
misconception lies just in ascribing to the capital as a whole that chase after
plus-value and that tendency towards accumulation, which are the result of the
competitive relation intercurring among the various individual capitals, but
which do not exist for their sum. The accumulation – consequent to the
competition and to the reduction of the labour-force to goods (after the
separation of the worker from the labour-tool) is a tendency belonging naturally
to the single capital, but it cannot be but a mere passive probability in
respect of the totality of capitals taken as a unit, contrarily to the Luxemburg
postulate.