Pitts Critiquing Capitalism Today

New Ways to Read Marx
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-87360-2
Verlag: Springer, Berlin

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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 Marx’s 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 Marx’s 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.

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Pitts, Frederick Harry

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Pitts, Frederick Harry
Frederick Harry Pitts is Lecturer in Management at the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Marxian Value Theory in New Times 1.1. New directions in Marxian value theory1.2. The New Reading of Marx1.3. The rise of postoperaismo1.4. What does it mean to be critical?1.5. This book's contribution1.6. Ideology critique as social critique1.7. Chapter outlines Part One: The New Reading of Marx 2. Value, Time and Abstract Labour2.1. Introduction2.2. Value in the New Reading of Marx2.3. Political economy and its critique2.4. Outline of Marx's theory of value2.5. From traditional Marxism to value-form theory2.6. The social validation of abstract labour-time 2.7. Socially necessary labour time2.8. Time in the circuit of capital2.9. Conclusion3. Money and the Exchange Abstraction3.1. Introduction3.2. A monetary theory of value3.3. The Kantian schema3.4. The capitalist schema3.5. The social synthesis 3.6. Non-empirical reality3.7. Conclusion4. Labour in the Valorisation Process4.1. Introduction4.2. Researching value in and beyond labour4.3. Modes of existence4.4. The workers' inquiry tradition4.5. The life trajectory of the commodity 4.6. The labour process as carrier of the valorisation process4.7. Why work? 4.8. Conclusion5. Class, Critique and Capitalist Crisis5.1. Introduction5.2. The negative dialectics of economic objectivity5.3. The historical and logical premise of the value-form5.4. Class and the commodity fetish5.5. Contemporary confusions5.6. Crisis and the class antagonism5.7. ConclusionPart Two: Postoperaismo 6. Immanence, Multitude and Empire6.1. Introduction6.2. Operaismo to postoperaismo 6.3. From the refusal to the celebration of work6.4. Immanence against dialectics6.5. Perversion and productivism6.6. Conclusion 7. The Fragment on Machines7.1. Introduction7.2. Fragment-thinking7.3. The communism of capital7.4. Too unlimited7.5. Measurement and violence7.6. Conclusion 8. A Crisis of Measurability8.1. Introduction8.2. Immaterial labour and the crisis of measurability8.3. Critiques of immaterial labour8.4. Within and against the labour theory of value8.5. The novelty of immaterial labour8.6. Concrete existence and immediate abstractness8.7. Immeasurable productiveness8.8. Conclusion 9. Creative Industries and Commodity Exchange9.1. Introduction9.2. Immaterial labour and the creative industries9.3. The work of combustion and the form-giving fire9.4. Creating commodities from products of labour9.5. Creativity in crisis9.6. Conclusion 10. Conclusion: From Postoperaismo to Postcapitalism

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