The legend of Unoism in Japan

Thomas T. Sekine

Japanese Economy, 2019, vol. 45, issue 3-4, 132-160

Abstract: Marx taught that economics, as a social science, must seek to know the noumenon (thing-in-itself) of capitalism, not just this or that of its phenomena, despite Kant’s well-known thesis that suggests the impossibility of such an enterprise. Uno was the only Marxist who understood this message from his study of Capital, and so developed his elaborate tripartite methodology, quite different from the usual “positivist” approach adopted by the natural sciences and bourgeois economics. His genriron (or pure theory of capitalist society) marked the first step towards the dialectic of capital that lurks behind Marx’s critique of bourgeois political economy, and initiated a truly scientific enquiry into the dialectical (i.e., synthetically-logical) structure of the capitalist mode of production. Economics based on this knowledge is scientifically dependable in comprehending not only the developmental phases in the past of our capitalist history, but also its process of disintegration that began after WWI and is continuing at present. Without this lucidly Uno-Marxian perspective, scientific approach to economics is fundamentally impossible.

Date: 2019
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