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In the last few years, Chris Arthur has developed a 'new' concept of abstract labour and exploitation.2

Information technology is ultimately unsuitable for solving the organizational problems posed by self-managed, ie, socialist, labor -- not only because of the way the computer is used but also, & principally, because of its inner nature & character. Contrary to the commonly held opinion, its use cannot be disjoined from its nature. Therefore, no generalized use of the computer can be thought of as being the basis of a socialist organization of labor. The tentative answer submitted stresses that a socialist organization should not be seen as something "fixed" (even if maximum rotation of individuals among social positions is allowed), but as a condition for the laborers' domination, the realization of which, however, is never complete. On this view, socialist organizations fail when they crystallize themselves into a fixed & unchangeable form. It is this crystallization that allows the bureaucratic forces to penetrate & ultimately transform them from conditions of the laborers' domination of the nonlaborers to conditions of the nonlaborers' domination of the laborers. This lack of internal dynamics at the structural level is the first step halting the free expression of the laborers' creativity in all spheres of social life, including that in which they give themselves their own social structure. Modified AA.

Drawing on modern philosophy of science, epistemology, economics and sociology, this work retraces Marx's original multi-disciplinary project and develops its foundations into a modern Marxist paradigm capable of understanding the present crisis and of challenging contemporary capitalism.

This article argues that Marx's transformation procedure has been turned into a nonexistent transformation 'problem' by abolishing time, i.e. by implicitly applying the methodology of neo-classical general equilibrium theory. It then depicts the real transformation process from individual into social values both when technological change is abstracted from and when it is explicitly taken into consideration. Finally the article ends with a critique of the thesis according to which value is created in the act of exchange.