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A New Introduction to Karl Marx

New Materialism, Critique of Political Economy, and the Concept of Metabolism

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Authors:
  1. Ryuji Sasaki

    1. Department of Economics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Presents a unique interpretation of Marx informed by the latest scholarship in Japan.
  • Accessibly written for scholars, students, and even educated general interest readers
  • Reflects the recent studies on MEGA2, including ‘late’ Marx’s thoughts on ‘metabolism’ with nature

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The Path Toward Questioning Capitalism (1818–1848): The Young Marx and “New Materialism”

    • Ryuji Sasaki
    Pages 1-46

  3. A Changing View of Capitalism (1848–1867): Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

    • Ryuji Sasaki
    Pages 47-121

  4. How to Fight Against Capitalism (1867–1883): Concept of “Metabolism” Within the Later Thought of Marx

    • Ryuji Sasaki
    Pages 123-168

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 169-215
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About this book

​This book provides a concise overview of Marx’s philosophy and political economy, tracing various changes of his theoretical views over time through his practical and theoretical engagements with contradictions of capitalism from the unique perspective of Japanese Marxism. While it offers an objective introduction to Marx’s critique of capitalism, Sasaki uniquely pays particular attention to the concept of “metabolism,” whose disruption under the capitalist mode of production causes exhaustion of labour-power as well as natural resources. Sasaki reconstructs Marx as a revolutionary thinker, whose devoted his entire life for the sake of establishing a more free and equal society beyond capitalism. Sasaki’s book shows that Marx’s passion for the socialist revolution in his last years is recorded in his late excerpt notebooks that become available through the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Ryuji Sasaki

About the author

Ryuji Sasaki is Associate Professor of Economics at Rikkyo University, Japan.

Michael Schauerte is a translator based in Miyazaki, Japan.




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