Buzgalin / Kolganov Twenty-first-century capital

Critical post-Soviet Marxist reflections
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3146-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Geopolitical Economy

This attempt at a ‘Capital for the 21st century’ asks how commodities, money and capital have changed. Combining Soviet and post-Soviet critical Marxism with Western Marxism and political economy with culture and theorizes knowledge and information commodification; simulacra markets; financialization; creative work; and market fundamentalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buzgalin, Aleksander

Kolganov, Andrey

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clarke, Renfrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the English edition

Part I: Methodology matters

1 The methodology of Capital: Karl Marx, Evald Ilyenkov, and the dialectics of the twenty-first century
2 From orthodoxy to the post-Soviet school of critical Marxism
3 Obsolete postmodernism: the dialectics of non-linear, multi-scenario social transformations
4 What drives the development of technology and the economy: production relations vs. productive forces, social creativity vs. activism

Part II: The market, money, and capital in the twenty-first century
1 ‘Late capitalism’: stages of development
2 The totalitarian market: networks and simulacra
3 Money in the twenty-first Century: financialisation as a product of virtual fictitious financial capital
4 Capital in the twenty-first century
5 Twenty-first-century reproduction: inequality and the ‘useless economy’

Conclusion - capital and capitalism: what has changed in the twenty-first century
Postscript: limits of the market and capital
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aleksandr Buzgalin is Professor at the department of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Modern Marxist Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Andrey Kolganov is Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Principal Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences