Hegelden Marxa Olumsuzun Emeği

The present study is an interrogation on the thesis that the analyses Marx develops on the capitalist mode of production are greatly inspired by the Hegelian concept of the “work of the negative”. At the beginning of his Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel insists on the fact that the truth is equally subject. Subject is a reality which continually produces, and through its production it produces itself continually. Marx states that the capitalist system is also governed by a logic of uninterrupted production, by a logic of “production for production”. In that sense the capitalist system is also a process of uninterrupted negation of the given. In Marxian analyses, the concept of “the work of the negative” finds its equivalent in the concept of infinite production of “value”.