Christopher John Arthur, The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital

Christopher John Arthur, The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital

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This work both argues for, and demonstrates, a new turn to dialectic. Marx's "Capital" was clearly influenced by Hegel's dialectical figures - here, case by case, the significance of these is clarified.

David Harvey, Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography

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Neil Smith, Selected Essays

On geography, capital, development, and gentrification

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Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

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Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel brings to light the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. We follow them as they roam Europe, on the run from governments amidst an age of revolution and a secret network of would-be revolutionaries, and see Karl not only as an intellectual, but as a protective father and loving husband, a revolutionary, a jokester, a man of tremendous passions, both political and personal. In LOVE AND CAPITAL, Mary Gabriel has given us a vivid, resplendent, and truly human portrait of the Marxes-their desires, heartbreak and devotion to each others ideals.

Karl Marx, Capital, A Critique of Political Economy, Volume II (Penguin Classics)

Karl Marx, Capital, A Critique of Political Economy, Volume II (Penguin Classics)
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The second volume of Capital, Marx’s world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx’s theories.
—Translated by David Fernbach and Introduction by Ernest Mandel | 1993

As social movements waned in the late 70s, the study of Marx seemed to take on a life of its own. Structuralist, post-structuralist, deconstructed Marxes bloomed in journals and seminar rooms across the US and Europe. These Marxes and their interpreters struggled to interpret the world, and sometimes to interpret Marx himself, losing sight at times of his dictum that the challenge is not to interpret the world but to change it. In 1979, Harry Cleaver tossed an incendiary device called Reading Capital Politically into those seminar rooms. Through a close reading of the first chapter, he shows that Das Kapital was written for the workers, not for academics, and that we need to expand our idea of workers to include housewives, students, the unemployed, and other non-waged workers. Reading Capital Politically provides a theoretical and historical bridge between struggles in Europe in the 60s and 70s and, particularly, the Autonomia of Italy to the Zapatistas of the 90s. His introduction provides a brilliant and succinct overview of working class struggles in the century since Capital was published.

• Preface to the 2nd Edition
• Preface to the Korean Edition
• Preface to the Mexican Edition
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Commodity-Form
• Chapter 3: The Substance and Magnitude of Value
• Chapter 4: The Twofold Character of Labor
• Chapter 5: The Form of Value
• Chapter 6: Conclusion
• Bibliography from the 2nd Edition (pdf)
• Review Questions for Chapter One, Volume One of Capital

A Collection of David Harvey

A Collection of David Harvey

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Castree - David Harvey Reader.pdf David Harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism.pdf
David Harvey - Companion to Marx’s capital.pdf
David Harvey - Condition of post-modernity.pdf David Harvey - Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom.pdf David Harvey - Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference.pdf
David Harvey - Paris, Capital of Modernity.pdf David Harvey - Social Justice and the City.pdf David Harvey - Spaces of Capital Towards a Critical Geography.pdf David Harvey - Spaces of Hope.pdf David Harvey - spaces of neoliberalization.pdf David Harvey - The Enigma of Capital.djvu David Harvey - The Limits to Capital.pdf

Slavoj Zizek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (2009)

Slavoj Zizek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce (2009)

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From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the Left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.

Ultimate ‘Reading Capital’ Post
Reading Capital by Louis Althusser:

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Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver:

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Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One by Fredric Jameson:

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Companion to Marx’s Capital by David Harvey:

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Marx’s Capital, Philosophy and Political Economy by Geoff Pilling:

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“To understand Capital, and therefore its first volume, it is necessary to take up ‘proletarian class positions’, i.e. to adopt the only viewpoint which makes visible the reality of the exploitation of wage labour power, which constitutes the whole of capitalism.
This is, proportionately speaking, on condition that they struggle against the influence of the burden of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideology that they carry, relatively easy for workers. As ‘by nature’ they have a ‘class instinct’ formed by the harsh school of daily exploitation, all they need is a supplementary political and theoretical education in order to understand objectively what they feel subjectively, instinctively. Capital gives them this supplementary theoretical education in the form of objective explanations and proofs, which helps them to move from a proletarian class instinct to an (objective) proletarian class position.” (L. A.) (x)