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Book SynopsisThe Automatic Fetish traces Marx’s analysis of capital, step by step, through the material compiled posthumously as the third volume of Capital. Identifying the critique of value as the central through line of the entire work, Beverley Best elaborates a theory of movement through which the capital machine generates social forms of appearance as the inversion of its inner operating mechanisms. Neither a return to basics nor a new-fangled reconstruction,
The Automatic Fetish eschews novelty to show once again that Marx rewards careful study.
- ‘If I had to choose one book that would make the case for the relevance of Marx’s critique of political economy to the humanities, this might very well be it’
Colleen Lye, co-editor of After Marx- ‘The contribution of
The Automatic Fetish is hard to exaggerate’
Nicholas Brown, author of Autonomy- ‘Will make a significant contribution to the wid
