“The Abstract Slave: Anti-Blackness and Marx's Method” presents an immanent critique of the Marxist value-form. While Marx could historically think the empirical reality of slavery appearing together with capitalism, the value-form theoretically unthinks the significance of the conjuncture slavery and capitalism. Even with attempts to recuperate Marxism from some of the errors of evolutionism, the content and form of slavery is not usually up for debate, only the status of its interaction with capitalist circuits (a rearrangement of difference within unity). Mirroring the Marxist methodology of rising from the “abstract” to the “concrete,” this article moves to substitute the abstraction of labor with that of slavery and closes by restaging the concrete development of “real subsumption” through the problem of abolition. Such a substitution deconstructs Marx's method by situating slavery's transposition to brute force (and race's reduction to false consciousness) as the productive source of the capitalist form of value.

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抽象的奴隶：反黑与马克思的方法

“抽象奴隶：反黑与马克思的方法”提出了对马克思主义价值形式的内在批判。尽管马克思历史上可以认为奴隶制的经验现实与资本主义一起出现，但价值形式在理论上却没有考虑到奴隶制和资本主义结合的重要性。即使试图从进化论的某些错误中恢复马克思主义，奴隶制的内容和形式通常也不值得争论，而只是其与资本主义回路相互作用的状态（统一内部差异的重新安排）。反映了马克思主义从“抽象”到“具体”的方法论，本文提出用奴隶制代替劳动的抽象，并通过废除死刑的问题重新探讨“实际包容性”的具体发展，以结束本文。