Valor de uso, capitalismo y política en Bolívar Echeverría

Resumen

This article studies Bolívar Echeverría’s development of the ‘use value’ theory, and highlights its Marxian and existentialist influences. In order to accomplish this, in the first section of the paper I review the relationship between Sartre’s and Marx’s theoretical productions and point out that the common ground between them, according to Sartre, is that both understand that liberty, understood as self-production, is the basis for the human condition. I posit that Echeverría agrees with Sartre regarding this point. In the second section of the paper, I analyze Echeverría’s further development of Marx’s take on ‘use value’, and point out the relationship that Echeverría stablishes between use value, liberty and the political realm. I conclude my paper suggesting that Echeverría’s contribution opens a possible horizon of reflection, which has been unattended by Marxian political views.