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Reading "Capital" Today: Marx after 150 Years
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy, particularly evident by the resurgence of readers picking up Marx’s most famous work, Capital . Now 150 years after its original publication, there are still fresh interpretations of Capital that can help readers find new pathways to progressive or revolutionary change.
Marking the 150th anniversary of its publication, Reading “Capital” Today offers a wide range of leading thinkers’ reflections on this influential text—its political legacy, its limitations, and its continuing relevance in our world. Highlighting issues such as ecology, gender, race, labor, communism, the Third World, and imperialism, contributors also identify the connections between Capital and various socialist projects of the past, drawing lessons from those experiences that might contribute to the reinvention of socialist politics today.
Marking the 150th anniversary of its publication, Reading “Capital” Today offers a wide range of leading thinkers’ reflections on this influential text—its political legacy, its limitations, and its continuing relevance in our world. Highlighting issues such as ecology, gender, race, labor, communism, the Third World, and imperialism, contributors also identify the connections between Capital and various socialist projects of the past, drawing lessons from those experiences that might contribute to the reinvention of socialist politics today.
272 pages, Hardcover
Published June 15, 2017
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October 23, 2020
Such an important book in our world today. For everyone who wants to seriously consider how we build a better world.
January 22, 2019
This book kicked my ass, I was reading it off and on for a week. Maybe all compendiums of Marx can't help but be apologists because "the revolution's never been done right". Maybe they always devolve into philosophy instead of economics (is it necessary to explain that Marx achieved insights that eluded Aristotle via the Labor Theory of Value?)
But I can't help but get a kick out of excerpts like
But I can't help but get a kick out of excerpts like
Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him.
April 2, 2021
a very mixed bag but overall has actually helped a LOT re the whole marx thing
didn't understand some of them (economics haha) but some of them were really good and i feel like i learned a HELL of a lot
didn't understand some of them (economics haha) but some of them were really good and i feel like i learned a HELL of a lot
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