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Book Synopsis150 years after the publication of Marx's Capital, this edited collection explores the book's relevance today.
Trade Review'Addresses not only capital and labour, and early experiments in socialism, but also questions of gender, ecology, and imperialism. What we learn is that reading Marx's Capital in the present as history can renew our vision of a more egalitarian world beyond capitalism: that of socialism in the twenty-first century' -- John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review
'Celebrates and interrogates Marx's Capital for its meaning today, as the neoliberal counterrevolution mutates into ever more grotesque political and economic forms. For reading Marx in our time, Schmidt and Fanelli have gathered a series of vital interventions on some of the most important theoretical and political themes in Marx for the struggles that lie in front of us' -- Greg Albo, Political Science, York University
'[A]n ideal text for collective that has studied Capital and wants to explore the possibilities of its application. ... It can help socialists to explore new ways that they might use Capital in their political struggles and the fight for socialism.' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Capital After 150 Years - Ingo Schmidt and Carlo Fanelli
1. Capital and the History of Class Struggle - Ingo Schmidt
2. Capital and the First International - William A. Pelz
3. Capital and Soviet Communism - Anej Korsika
4. Capital and the Labour Theory of Value - Prabhat Patnaik
5. Capital and Gender - Silvia Federici
6. Capital and its ‘Laws of Motion’: Determination, Praxis and the Human Science/Natural Science Question - Peter Gose and Justin Paulson
7. Capital and the Labour Process - Paul Thompson and Chris Smith
8. Capital and Organized Labour - Carlo Fanelli and Jeff Noonan
9. Capital and Ecology - Hannah Holleman
10. Imagining Society Beyond Capital - Peter Hudis
Notes on Contributors
Index
