Marx's Inferno

The Political Theory of Capital

William Clare Roberts (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17290-3 (ISBN)

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Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern "social Hell." In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism. Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization.
Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.

William Clare Roberts is assistant professor of political science at McGill University.

Acknowledgments ix A Note on References and Translations xiii 1 Introduction: Rereading Capital 1 Reading Capital as Political Theory 3 Reading Capital as Political Theory 9 Outline of the Argument 17 2 Taenarus: The Road to Hell 20 The Elements of the Case 24 The Social Hell 32 Marx's Katabasis 40 Conclusion 54 3 Styx: The Anarchy of the Market 56 Republican Socialism and the Money Mystery 58 Marx's Innovations 74 Fetishism and Domination 82 Conclusion 101 4 Dis: Capitalist Exploitation as Force Contrary to Nature 104 Exploitation before Capital 108 Capitalist Exploitation in Capital 119 Exploitation as Forza contra Natura 134 Conclusion 142 5 Malebolge: The Capitalist Mode of Production as Fraud 146 Capital with a Human Face 153 The Monsters of Fraud 163 Conclusion 183 6 Cocytus: Treachery and the Necessity of Expropriation 187 Primitive Accumulation as a Problem 193 Negating the Negation 208 Conclusion 222 7 Conclusion: Purgatory, or the Social Republic 228 Marx's Midwifery 231 The Shape of Things to Come 244 Conclusion 256 Bibliography 259 Index 277

Erscheinungsdatum	21.12.2016
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-691-17290-0 / 0691172900
ISBN-13	978-0-691-17290-3 / 9780691172903
Zustand	Neuware