Capitalist State’s purchasing power and R&D competitive funding: A marxian analysis on the transformation of the economic structure of the scientific production
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https://doi.org/10.46661/revintpensampolit.4638Keywords:
Rosa Luxembourg, State’s purchasing power, capitalist accumulation, Science fundingAbstract
This article analyses the transformation undergone by the economic structure of the scientific production from the ‘80s onwards, taking as a point of
departure those postulates fleshed out by Rosa Luxembourg with respect to the contradictory expansive movement of the capitalist social relationship (capital accumulation) and the role played by the state’s purchasing power on such. More precisely, we aim at demonstrating
that changes happening on science funding policies over the last decades are grounded on the progressive subsumption of the «public science»
to the logic of value; and, furthermore, that the demand from the capitalist State, as a particular moment of the latter’s action, necessarily mediates
the unfolding of capitalist form of production within the academic sphere.
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