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Marx's inferno : the political theory of capital / / William Clare Roberts



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Autore: Roberts William Clare Visualizza persona
Titolo: Marx's inferno : the political theory of capital / / William Clare Roberts Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 pages)
Disciplina: 335.412
Soggetto topico: Capitalism - Political aspects
Soggetto non controllato: Capital
Charles Fourier
Dante
G. A. Cohen
Inferno
Karl Marx
Owenism
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Robert Owen
Saint-Simonians
akrasia
anarchy
association
capital accumulation
capitalism
capitalist exploitation
capitalist mode of production
collective force
commerce
domination
expropriation
force
fraud
labor power
labor
market society
money
overwork
political economy
political theory
primitive accumulation
republicanism
separatism
social Hell
socialism
surplus labor
treachery
wages
workers' movement
working class
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on References and Translations -- 1. Introduction: Rereading Capital -- 2. Taenarus: The Road to Hell -- 3. Styx: The Anarchy of the Market -- 4. Dis: Capitalist Exploitation as Force Contrary to Nature -- 5. Malebolge: The Capitalist Mode of Production as Fraud -- 6. Cocytus: Treachery and the Necessity of Expropriation -- 7. Conclusion: Purgatory, or the Social Republic -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern "social Hell." In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.
Titolo autorizzato: Marx's Inferno  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-691-18081-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910154298003321
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