The dialectic of incommensurability: the social form of value in the era of digital capitalism and a critique of the illusions of post-operaism

Abstract

The article presents a critical teleological analysis based on the post-operaist interpretation of the "Fragment about Machines" by K. Marx, revealing its methodological contradictions and politically engaged implications. At the center of the analysis is the reduction of Marx's theory of value to a tool for forecasting "cognitive communism", which completely ignores its role as a critic of the social form of global capitalism. The synthesis of the methodology of the "New Reading of Marx" (NRM) and "Open Marxism" shows that the post-operaist optimism regarding the crisis of the measurability of labor is based on the transposition of the emphasis from abstract labor as social mediation to concrete forms of "immaterial production". The concept of "dialectics of incommensurability" is introduced into philosophical circulation, demonstrating that the crisis of value does not cancel its form, but only transforms the tools and mechanisms of violence that ensure the permanent and immanent reproduction of capital. The novelty of this research lies in rethinking the role of technology not as an autonomous force capable of destroying the law of value, but as an element that exposes the antagonism between an abstract measure and the concrete content of work in the conditions of modern digital capitalism.