Overview
- Critically introduces readers to new readings of Marx’s theory of value and critique of political economy for a contemporary age of crisis
- Relates contemporary interpretations of Marx’s work to their context within the wider development of Marxist theory, at a time of renewed interest and academic and political uptake
- Interrogates prevailing optimism about the future of work in an age of machines and ‘immaterial labour’, conceptualizing what has changed and what has not about work and economic life under capitalism
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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The New Reading of Marx
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“Too much fashionable thinking on the left lacks rigour and an appreciation of the history of Marxist thought. This is especially the case when we consider value theory and alternative approaches to the world ofwork. In contrast this exceptional book knows its subject matter- and demands to be read by anyone who claims allegiance to the contemporary left.” (Jon Cruddas MP, Visiting Professor, Centre of Sustainable Work and Employment Futures, University of Leicester)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Frederick Harry Pitts is Lecturer in Management at the School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critiquing Capitalism Today
Book Subtitle: New Ways to Read Marx
Authors: Frederick Harry Pitts
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62633-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62632-1Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87360-2Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62633-8Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 279
Topics: International Political Economy, Cultural Economics, Political Philosophy