Marx's Inferno (eBook)

The Political Theory of Capital

William Clare Roberts (Autor)

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2016
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8370-7 (ISBN)

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William Clare Roberts is assistant professor of political science at McGill University.

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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 "e;social Hell."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy • Akrasia • Anarchy • Antonio Gramsci • association • Bargaining Power • Bourgeoisie • Capital • Capital Accumulation • Capitalism • capitalist exploitation • Capitalist mode of production • Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory) • Charles Fourier • class conflict • Classical Economics • collective force • Commerce • Commodity • Commodity Fetishism • communism • Consideration • Critical theory • Criticism • Criticism of capitalism • Dante • Deliberation • despotism • Dialectic • Dictatorship • Division of Labour • Domination • Economic Power • Emancipation • Employment • Exploitation of labour • Expropriation • Extortion • false consciousness • Falsity • Ferdinand Lassalle • feudalism • force • For Marx • Fraud • G. A. Cohen • Gregory Claeys • Grundrisse • Historical materialism • indictment • Inferno • Institution • International Workingmen's Association • John Francis Bray • Karl Marx • Kritik • Labor • laborer • labor power • labor theory of value • Labour movement • Labour Power • Louis Althusser • Market Economy • market society • Marxism • Marx's theory of history • Mode of Production • Modernity • MONEY • Montesquieu • Moral Economy • Morality • Multitude • Negative Liberty • overwork • Owenism • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon • Political Economy • Political Philosophy • political strategy • political theory • Politics • Precedent • Primitive Accumulation • Primitive accumulation of capital • proletarian revolution • Property is theft! • Prostitution • Radicalism (historical) • Radical Republican • Radicals (UK) • Reading Capital • Regime • Republicanism • Robbery • Robert Owen • Saint-Simonianism • Saint-Simonians • Scarcity (social psychology) • separatism • skepticism • Slavery • social division of labor • social Hell • Socialism • social relation • social revolution • State (polity) • surplus labor • surplus labour • surplus value • Tax • Theft • The Poverty of Philosophy • Thomas Hodgskin • Treachery • Uncertainty • unequal exchange • usury • utopian socialism • value-form • Wages • wage slavery • Wealth • What Is Property? • workers' movement • Working Class • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8370-9 / 1400883709
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8370-7 / 9781400883707