Twenty-first-century capital (eBook)

Critical post-Soviet Marxist reflections

Aleksander Buzgalin, Andrey Kolganov (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3147-8 (ISBN)

Infos

How would Marx have understood twenty-first-century capitalism? For Buzgalin and Kolganov, the answer lies in a theoretical investigation of how and why the fundamental elements of capitalism- commodities, money and capital - have changed since the publication of Marx's Capital more than 150 years ago. Introducing the concepts of social creativity, markets for simulacra and virtual fictitious capital - Buzgalin and Kolganov offer a recovery and development of Marx's understanding of social transformations. Twenty-first century capitalism not only demonstrates Marxism's relevance to the core economic questions of our time and its superiority over neoclassical economics, but it leads English-language readers into the 'undiscovered country' of Soviet and post-Soviet critical Marxism. How might modern Marxism respond to the contemporary challenges of the commodification of knowledge and information? And can it arrive at something resembling a Capital for the twenty-first century? This accessible and comprehensive account is essential reading for those wanting to understand the problems of the modern economy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Geopolitical Economy
• Übersetzer: Renfrey Clarke
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Alienation • Capital • creative activity • Exploitation • Financialisation • Late Capitalism • Marxism • MONEY • Postcapitalism • post-Soviet Critical Marxism
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-3147-1 / 1526131471
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3147-8 / 9781526131478