A Reader S Guide To Marx S Capital

Author : Adam Booth,Rob Sewell
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781913026110

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Understanding Marx’s Capital: A reader’s guide by Adam Booth,Rob Sewell Pdf

Marx's Capital was a book that revolutionised political economy and for the first time opened our eyes to the real workings of capitalism. It was, however, met with a wall of silence from the mainstream economists and the establishment. Despite this, Capital became regarded in the workers' movement as the Bible of the working class... The aim of this book, written by authors from the International Marxist Tendency, is to help guide readers through the pages of volume one of Capital; to bring out the main themes and ideas contained within it; and to discuss the relevance of this great Marxist classic in terms of understanding the crisis-ridden world around us today - and, most importantly, how we can radically transform it.

Author : Joseph Choonara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608467287

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A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital by Joseph Choonara Pdf

Marx's groundbreaking analysis of capitalism retains its relevance today. This book guides readers as they grapple with Marx's masterpiece, Capital.

Author : Joseph Choonara
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608467396

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A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital by Joseph Choonara Pdf

p>This book carefully guides the reader through each chapter of the first volume of Capital. It sets Marx’s arguments in context, and explains their relevance today, and it offers insights into Marx’s method, highlighting key concepts running through the book. It also offers pointers to wider works that can provide further illumination.

Author : Michael Heinrich
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583678961

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How to Read Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich Pdf

An accessible companion to Karl Marx's essential Capital With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital—Marx’s foundational nineteenth-century work on political economy—is by no means considered an easily understood text. Central concepts, such as abstract labor, the value-form, or the fetishism of commodities, can seem opaque to us as first-time readers, and the prospect of comprehending Marx’s thought can be truly daunting. Until, that is, we pick up Michael Heinrich’s How to Read Marx's Capital. Paragraph by paragraph, Heinrich provides extensive commentary and lucid explanations of questions and quandaries that arise when encountering Marx’s original text. Suddenly, such seemingly gnarly chapters as “The Labor Process and the Valorization Process” and “Money or the Circulation of Capital” become refreshingly clear, as Heinrich explains just what we need to keep in mind when reading such a complex text. Deploying multiple appendices referring to other pertinent writings by Marx, Heinrich reveals what is relevant about Capital, and why we need to engage with it today. How to Read Marx's Capital provides an illuminating and indispensable guide to sorting through cultural detritus of a world whose political and economic systems are simultaneously imploding and exploding.

Author : Anthony Brewer
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521257301

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A Guide to Marx's 'Capital' by Anthony Brewer Pdf

The Guide aims to contribute to a better understanding of Marx's masterpiece, Capital.

Author : Kenneth Smith
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839980022

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Karl Marx's 'Capital': A Guide to Volumes IIII by Kenneth Smith Pdf

This guide uniquely presents the three volumes of Capital in a different order of reading to that in which they were published, placing them instead in the order that Marx himself sometimes recommended as a more user-friendly way of reading. Dr Smith also argues that, for most of the twentieth century, the full development of the capitalist mode of production (CMP) has been undermined by the existence of a non-capitalist ‘third world’, which has caused the CMP to take on the form of what Marx called a highly developed mercantile system, rather than one characterized by an uninterrupted circuit of industrial capital of the kind he expected would develop.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844673599

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A Companion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey Pdf

“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…” The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again. David Harvey’s video lecture course can be found here: davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Author : Kenneth Smith
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857285775

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A Guide to Marx's 'Capital' Vols IIII by Kenneth Smith Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive guide to all three volumes of Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’, with advice on further reading and points for further discussion. Recognizing the contemporary relevance of ‘Capital’ in the midst of the current financial crisis, Kenneth Smith has produced an essential guide to Marx’s ideas, particularly on the subject of the circulation of money-capital. This guide uniquely presents the three volumes of ‘Capital’ in a different order of reading to that in which they were published, placing them instead in the order that Marx himself sometimes recommended as a more user-friendly way of reading. Dr Smith also argues that for most of the twentieth century, the full development of the capitalist mode of production (CMP) has been undermined by the existence of a non-capitalist ‘third world’, which has caused the CMP to take on the form of what Marx called a highly developed mercantile system, rather than one characterized by an uninterrupted circuit of industrial capital of the kind he expected would develop. While the guide can be read as a book in its own right, it also contains detailed references to Volumes I–III so that students, seminars and discussion groups can easily make connections between Smith’s explanations and the relevant parts of ‘Capital’.

Author : Ben Fine,Alfredo Saad-Filho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Marxian economics
ISBN : 1783719745

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Marx's 'Capital' - Sixth Edition by Ben Fine,Alfredo Saad-Filho Pdf

Fully revised and updated sixth edition of the internationally established guide to Marx's Capital.

Author : Simon Choat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472534002

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Marx's 'Grundrisse' by Simon Choat Pdf

The Grundrisse is widely regarded as one of Marx's most important texts, with many commentators claiming it is the centrepiece of his entire oeuvre. It is also, however, a notoriously difficult text to understand and interpret. In this - the first guide and introduction to reading the Grundrisse - Simon Choat helps us to make sense of a text that is both a first draft of Capital and a major work in its own right. As well as offering a detailed commentary on the entire text, this guide explains the Grundrisse's central themes and arguments and highlights its impact and influence. The Grundrisse's discussions of money, labour, nature, freedom, the role of machinery, and the development and dynamics of capitalism have influenced generations of thinkers, from Anglo-American historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Robert Brenner to Continental philosophers like Antonio Negri and Gilles Deleuze, as well as offering vital insights into Marx's methodology and the trajectory of his thought. Contemporary examples are used throughout this guide both to illuminate Marx's terminology and concepts and to illustrate the continuing relevance of the Grundrisse. Readers will be offered guidance on: -Philosophical and Historical Context -Key Themes -Reading the Text -Reception and Influence

Author : Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745325610

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How to Read Marx's Capital by Stephen Shapiro Pdf

Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides help with the more technical aspects that non-economists may find taxing.Students are urged to think for themselves and engage with Marx's powerful methods of argument and explanation. Shapiro shows that Capital is key to understanding critical theory and cultural production.This highly focused book will prove invaluable to students of politics, cultural studies and literary theory.

Author : Michael Heinrich
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583672914

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An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich Pdf

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx's Capital. Although mainstream economists and commentators once dismissed Marx's work as outmoded and flawed, some are begrudgingly acknowledging an analysis that sees capitalism as inherently unstable. And of course, there are those, like Michael Heinrich, who have seen the value of Marx all along, and are in a unique position to explain the intricacies of Marx's thought. Heinrich's modern interpretation of Capital is now available to English-speaking readers for the first time. It has gone through nine editions in Germany, is the standard work for Marxist study groups, and is used widely in German universities. The author systematically covers all three volumes of Capital and explains all the basic aspects of Marx's critique of capitalism in a way that is clear and concise. He provides background information on the intellectual and political milieu in which Marx worked, and looks at crucial issues beyond the scope of Capital, such as class struggle, the relationship between capital and the state, accusations of historical determinism, and Marx's understanding of communism. Uniquely, Heinrich emphasizes the monetary character of Marx's work, in addition to the traditional emphasis on the labor theory of value, this highlighting the relevance of Capital to the age of financial explosions and implosions.

Author : David Smith,Phil Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Marxian economics
ISBN : 0906495830

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Marx's Kapital by David Smith,Phil Evans Pdf

Author : Hadas Thier
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642592184

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A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier Pdf

A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. “Thier’s urgently needed book strips away jargon to make Marx’s essential work accessible to today’s diverse mass movements.” —Sarah Leonard, contributing editor to The Nation “A great book for proletarian chain-breaking.” —Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley “Thier unpacks the mystery of capitalist inequality with lucid and accessible prose . . . . We will need books like A People’s Guide to help us make sense of the root causes of the financial crises that shape so many of our struggles today.” —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership “Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy . . . . Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism . . . . Reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally, author of Blood and Money

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781781681572

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Representing Capital by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson’s first book-length engagement with Marx’s magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx’s thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the setting for paradoxes and contradictions that struggle toward resolution, giving rise to new antinomies and a new forward movement. These immense segments overlap each other to combine and develop on new levels in the same way that capital itself does, stumbling against obstacles that it overcomes by progressive expansions, which are in themselves so many leaps into the unknown.