La teoría marxista de la sobreacumulación y la crisis

Simon Clarke; Rodrigo Federico Pascual; Franco Julian Quiroga

doi:10.32399/ICSYH.bvbuap.2954-4300.2025.6.12.842

Authors

Simon Clarke University of Warwick
Rodrigo Federico Pascual Instituto de Cultura, Sociedad y Estado, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-8132
Franco Julian Quiroga Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades “Alfonso Vélez Pliego”, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2601-434X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32399/ICSYH.bvbuap.2954-4300.2025.6.12.842

Keywords:

overaccumulation, crisis, falling rate of profit, disproportionality theory of crisis

Abstract

In this paper I intend to contrast the “falling rate of profit” crisis theories of the 1970s with the “underconsumptionism” of the orthodox Marxist tradition. The central argument is that in rejecting traditional underconsumptionist theories of crisis contemporary Marxism has thrown the baby out with the bathwater, with unfortunate theoretical and political consequences. A more adequate critique of traditional underconsumptionism leads not to the falling rate of profit, but to a disproportionality theory of crisis, which follows the traditional theory in seeing crises not as epochal events but as expressions of the permanent tendencies of capitalist accumulation.

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