Critiquing Capitalism Today New Ways to Read Marx [Hardcover]

This book critically introduces two compelling contemporary schools of Marxian thought: the New Reading of Marx of Michael Heinrich and Werner Bonefeld, and the postoperaismo of Antonio Negri. Each stake novel claims on Marxs value theory, the first revisiting key categories of the critique of political economy through Frankfurt School critical theory, the second calling the law of value into crisis with reference to Marxs rediscovered Fragment on Machines. Today, postcapitalist conceptualisations of a changing workplace excite interest in postoperaist projections of a crisis of measurability sparked by so-called immaterial labour. Using the New Reading of Marx to question this prospectus, Critiquing Capitalism Today clarifies complex debates for newcomers to these cutting-edge currents of critical thought, looking anew at value, money, labour, class and crisis.

1. Introduction: Marxian Value Theory in New Times

1.1. New directions in Marxian value theory

1.2. The New Reading of Marx

1.3. The rise of postoperaismo

1.4. What does it mean to be critical?

1.5. This books contribution

1.6. Ideology critique as social critique

1.7. Chapter outlines

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Part One: The New Reading of Marx

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2.? Value, Time and Abstract Labour

2.2. Value in the New Reading of Marx

2.3. Political economy and its critique

2.4. Outline of Marxs theory of value

2.6. The social validation of abstract labour-time???????

2.7. Socially necessary labour time

2.8. Time in the circuilš