On Capital as Real Abstraction

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the basic features of economic forms, considering them as objective phenomena of Capitalist society, and with the specific role that the critique assumes in treating them. This is an abstraction that, given the importance of its objective condition within the social form, tends to compel the behavior of social individuals, beyond their immediate processes of consciousness, and at the same time directs the sense of social praxis of such individuals in systemic terms, toward the reproduction of that hidden social form.