Karl Marx and the time of justice

In Marx's meditation on the capitalist mode of production, time occupies a privileged place. Bearing in mind that every economy is, in short, an economy of time, capitalism seeks to organize it rationally from an instrumental and impersonal conception. Conceiving it only as a metric unit, it is possible to turn work into a commodity and set a price for it. The struggle between the necessary work and the surplus labour is a confrontation of temporalities between living labour (labour force) and surplus labour (surplus value). Marx confronts a rationality that dissolves and flattens all quality of time, forcing it towards a homogenization that makes it lose value to find a price. From now on it is clear to what extent the class struggle is presented as a conflict of temporalities where a justice project that seeks to break all metrics is housed.