The Culmination of Capital: Essays on Volume Three of Marx's by Martha Campbell, Geert Reuten

By Martha Campbell, Geert Reuten

Martha Campbell, Geert Reuten (eds.)

In this assortment, 4 philosophers and 4 economists contemplate the 3rd quantity of Marx's Capital. The essays soak up all of the significant topics of quantity III - pageant, for formation and improvement of the overall cost of revenue, the credits process and finance capital, hire, the Trinity formulation and the idea that of sophistication - and think about them within the mild of the 2 earlier volumes. The authors percentage a spotlight at the proposal of social shape in Marx's paintings and at the approach to his argument. the gathering is meant either for experts in Marxian idea and for college students of the heritage of financial suggestion and of methodology.

Contents:

Marx's Capital III, The end result of Capital: normal advent; G.Reuten
Class, Capital, and main issue; P.Mattick
Capital quite often and Marx's Capital; C.J.Arthur
Hostile Brothers: Marx's conception of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in quantity III of Capital; F.Moseley
Transformation and the financial Circuit: Marx as a financial Theorist of creation; R.Bellofiore
Capital, festival and lots of Capitals; C.J.Arthur
Surplus earnings from Innovation: A lacking point in Capital III?; T.Smith
The expense of revenue Cycle and the competition among Managerial and Finance Capital; G.Reuten
The credits approach; M.Campbell
Rent and Landed estate; M.Campbell
The phantasm of the commercial: The Trinity formulation and the 'Religion of daily Life': P.Murray

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Marx, Capital, Vol. III: 1026. 51. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984). 53 Social class position is therefore multidimensional, as individuals occupy locations in more than one such field; in each a person’s position can be defined in terms of a relation to a type of social power, which Bourdieu calls a mode of capital on the model of the dominant form of social power. , which allow them to dominate others, both in their particular field of action, the university, and outside it, say as experts on television or advisors to trade unions or governments.

Marx, Capital, Vol. III: 367. 37. For a brief history of the concept ‘class’, see Raymond Williams, Keywords (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983): 60 ff. 38. Marx, Capital, Vol. I: 927. This view – basic to Marx’s critique of the Classical economists’ labour theory of value – should not be confused with a mythical doctrine, often ascribed to Marx, of the disappearance of the middle classes in capitalism. See the discussion in Hal Draper, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Vol. II, ‘The Politics of Social Classes’ (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978): 613 ff.

16. 17. 18. 19. Marx, Capital, Vol. I: 701. : 1069–70. Marx, Capital, Vol. III: 1025. : 969. For a more extended account, see my ‘Theory as Critique: On the Argument in Capital’, in Fred Moseley and Martha Campbell (eds), New Investigations of Marx’s Method (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1997): 66–88. 20. Marx, Capital, Vol. I: 125. 22 The Culmination of Capital thus requires the existence on the market of the commodity labourpower, owned by people unable to employ it themselves because of their lack of access to means of production.

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