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This book provides an up-to-date reading of Capital Volume I, emphasizing the relevance of Marx's analysis to everyday twenty-first century struggles.
Harry Cleaver's treatise outlines and critiques Marx's analysis chapter by chapter. His unique interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value reveals how every theoretical category of Capital designates aspects of class struggle in ways that help us resist and escape them. At the same time, while rooted within the tradition of workerism, he understands the working class to include not only the industrial proletariat but also unwaged peasants, housewives, children and students.
A challenge to scholars and an invaluable resource for students and activists today.
This book provides an up-to-date reading of Capital Volume I, emphasizing the relevance of Marx's analysis to everyday twenty-first century struggles.
Harry Cleaver's treatise outlines and critiques Marx's analysis chapter by chapter. His unique interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value reveals how every theoretical category of Capital designates aspects of class struggle in ways that help us resist and escape them. At the same time, while rooted within the tradition of workerism, he understands the working class to include not only the industrial proletariat but also unwaged peasants, housewives, children and students.
A challenge to scholars and an invaluable resource for students and activists today.
Acknowledgments
Sources and Citations
1. Introduction
2. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
3. Part Eight: So-called Primitive Accumulation - Chapters
26–33
4. Part One: Commodities and Money - Chapters 1–3
5. Part Two: The Transformation of Money into Capital - Chapters
4–6
6. Part Three: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value - Chapters
7–11
7. Part Four: The Production of Relative Surplus-Value - Chapters
12–15
8. Part Five: The Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
- Chapters 16–18
9. Part Six: Wages - Chapters 19–22
10. Part Seven: The Process of Accumulation of Capital - Chapters
23–25
11. Conclusion
Index
Harry Cleaver is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Reading Capital Politically (AK Press; 2nd ed, 2000).
'The ideal introduction to Marx for a new generation of activists,
and a fresh reading for Marxist scholars. Like 'Reading Capital
Politically', it demonstrates that Marx’s work speaks directly to
the struggles of our time'
*Silvia Federici*
'Shows that Marxism can be joined with feminist and workerist
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class struggle still shapes our world's history'
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Brings Marx to life and shows the continuing relevance of his
work'
*Brett Caraway, Professor of Media Economics and Law, University of
Toronto*
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*Anitra Nelson, author of 'Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a
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'There are many books about Marx and Capital, but Harry Cleaver's
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*Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of 'Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour
in the Digital Vortex'*
'Masterfully illuminates the particulars of Marx's great work. He
brings alive to readers what might otherwise appear as dry,
abstract concepts, and shows how people's lives are in thrall to
these ideas.'
*David Sherman, author of 'Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of
Subjectivity' *
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