Time in Marx
Title | Time in Marx PDF eBook |
Author | Stavros Tombazos |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2013-11-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004256261 |
This book demonstrates that the basic concepts of the three volumes of Capital come under different categories of time: "time of production" in the first volume is linear, “time of circulation” in the second is circular, while in the third volume “organic time” is the unity of the two. Capitalist relations emerge as a definite organisation of social time that obeys its own intrinsic criteria and operates as an autonomous, social subject. Reading Capital from this perspective, it becomes possible to restore its dialectical (Hegelian) logic – not in order to reveal the “real” Marx, but as a means to contribute to the understanding of the real, capitalist world with its present-day fetishes, its explosive contradictions and its ever deeper crises.
Marx's Temporalities
Title | Marx's Temporalities PDF eBook |
Author | Massimiliano Tomba |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004236783 |
The book rethinks key categories of Marx's work beyond any philosophy of history, showing how the plurality of temporal layers that are combined and come into conflict in the violently unifying historical dimension of modernity are central to Marx's thought.
Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Title | Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hudis |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2012-07-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004229868 |
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and does not contain a detailed or coherent conception of its alternative, this book shows, through an analysis of his published and unpublished writings, that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society that informed his critique of value production, alienated labor and capitalist accumulation. Instead of focusing on the present with only a passing reference to the future, Marx's emphasis on capitalism's tendency towards dissolution is rooted in a specific conception of what should replace it. In critically re-examining that conception, this book addresses the quest for an alternative to capitalism that has taken on increased importance today.
Marx for Our Times
Title | Marx for Our Times PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Bensaïd |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 600 |
Release | 2020-05-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1789601797 |
The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history's refusal to grind to a halt and the global credit crisis that began in 2008 have rekindled interest in capitalism's most persistent critic. Written during the mid-nineties, a period of Western complacency and neo-liberal reaction, Marx for Our Times is a critical reading of dialectical materialism as a method of resistance. Without denying the contradictory character of Marx's thought, and with a sensitivity to the plurality of theories it has inspired, Daniel Bensaid sets out to discover what in Marx remains dynamic and relevant in our era of accelerating economic change. Marx's theory emerges, not as a doctrinal system, but as an intellectual tool of social struggle and global transformation in a world where capital continues to dominate social relations.
Time in Marx
Title | Time in Marx PDF eBook |
Author | Stavros Tombazos |
Publisher | Historical Materialism |
Total Pages | 327 |
Release | 2015-02-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781608464159 |
An original reading of the logic of all three volumes of Capital which takes time as its starting point.
Time, Labor, and Social Domination
Title | Time, Labor, and Social Domination PDF eBook |
Author | Moishe Postone |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996-07-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521565400 |
In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. These interpretations lead him to a very different analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of "actually existing socialism." According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the central core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reformulation relates the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. It provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.
Marx After Marx
Title | Marx After Marx PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Harootunian |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2015-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231540132 |
In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped to both unify the West in its struggle with the Soviet Union and bolster the belief that capitalism remained dominant in the contest over progress. This book deprovincializes Marx and the West's cultural turn by returning to the theorist's earlier explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Marx's expansive view shows how local circumstances, time, and culture intervened to reshape capital's system of production in these regions. His outline of a diversified global capitalism was much more robust than was his sketch of the English experience in Capital and helps explain the disparate routes that evolved during the twentieth century. Engaging with the texts of Lenin, Luxemburg, Gramsci, and other pivotal theorists, Harootunian strips contemporary Marxism of its cultural preoccupation by reasserting the deep relevance of history.