A return to Marx - and then beyond /

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Author / Creator:	Claussen, Tor, author.
Imprint:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	World philosophy World philosophy series.
Subject:	Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883. Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883. Capitalism. Capitalism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456542

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ISBN:	9781536176971 1536176974 9781536176964
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2022).
Summary:	""Capitalism - Marx and Beyond" examines the current bourgeoisie capitalism. Capitalism is addressed as a unique concrete historically reality. This mode of production inherits traditional pre modern social forms that are cultivated as national identities. National sentiments are expressed as honor of possessions that are identified through diverse "we" and preserved as "our values". Capitalism transforms and modifies such pre modern heritages into an undistinguishable mix of both modern and pre modern social forms. Focus in this book will be on the unique material features of capitalism. Attention will be provided to the works of Karl Marx, particularly the second volume of Capital, where Marx apparently got stuck. His deadlock indicates a serious deficit associated with investigations of accumulation and innovation. Innovation and accumulation will, in this book, be linked to uncertainty and reoccurring crises that signify the incapacities of the capitalist system to operate as a viable mode of production. In the theory of value, Marx places human social labor in a unique historical position, where social labor is applied together with previously produced means in order to deliver new output. Anarchism and the insufficiency to provide necessary and appropriate output causes disturbances and crises. Several critical examinations of selected views on crises, uncertainties and dysfunctions of capitalism are offered. Selected strategies based on monetary solutions and financial instruments aim to regenerate balance. Rather than gaining a balance, reoccurring disruptive circumstances are assumed to be the normal state of affairs. Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel and The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity from 1984 draws attention to a strategy based on a system of flexible specialization accompanying the introduction of Information and Communication Technology. Their second historical divide associated with the new production strategy is critically examined. Thomas Piketty and his Capital in the Twenty-First Century from 2014 emphasizes capital, wealth distribution and inequality. A critical account of the concept of capital is a paramount assignment in the critical investigations into his contribution. Marx is offered another chance through the critical investigations of some basic concepts introduced by David Harvey in A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 2 from 2013. Harvey's emphasis on the role of credit and finance are critically investigated and justifies an alternative return to Marx. A renewed interpretation of Marx corresponds with his assumption that a balanced and stable economy is an illusion. Capitalism has to accumulate and create the necessary flexibility in order to reproduce. On the other hand, this system of accumulation is anarchic, arbitrary and contradictory. Identification of sources for flexibility and accumulation becomes a deadlock for Marx. Innovation is insufficiently accounted for in his analysis. A serious deficit with his whole position emerges that paves the way for an alternative beyond Marx. The alternative beyond Marx draws attention to a wider context of the critical investigations. Some philosophical implications concerning the concepts of freedom, independence, determinism and randomness are touched upon. Implications for the much-debated concepts of basis and superstructure are addressed. The consequences for the future possibility for the human species to cope with crises and other aspects of our destiny are sketched"--
Other form:	Print version: Claussen, Tor. A return to Marx - and then beyond New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2020] 9781536176964

Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Reading Guidelines
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Crises
Divides
Capital
Crises
Unpredictability, Uncertainty and Risk
Uncertainty, Paradoxes and Counterfinality
Unpredictable Reoccurring Disruptions
Money and Uncertainty Absorption Capacities
The Unachievable Balance
The Second Industrial Divide
What Divide?
Crises
What Crises?
Blame It on the State: Leftist and Neo-Liberals
The Third Way
Micro, Macro, Shop Floor and Welfare State Arrangements
Yeoman Democracy
Competition and Collaboration Ambiguities
Critical Remarks and Reflections
The return of Capital
Inequality and Crises
Historical Comparison
Crises, Central Banks and State Intervention
Piketty's Political Economy
Capital, Assets and Wealth
What Is Capital According to Piketty?
Piketty's Concept of Capital
Some Critical Reflections
What Counts as Assets?
What about Wealth?
Income and Growth
Some Additional Issues
Are There Contrary Forces?
What Are Current Advancement?
How to Cope with These New Forms of Inequality?
Crises What Crises?
Piketty's Concept of Capital
Political Implication and a Short Statement from Marx
Chapter 3
Giving Marx Another Chance
David Harvey
A Return to Marx?
Harvey's Afterthoughts on Piketty
Harvey and the Second Volume
Comments on Harvey's Examination
Sources of Value and Constant Capital
Production and Reproduction
Resisting Capitalism
A Modest Position?
Our Return to Marx
Rereading Capital
Comments on Reading and Method
Value, Alienation and Self-Exploitation
Reconsidering Production and Reproduction
Simple and Extended
Social Economic Performance
Marx Getting Stuck
Chapter 4
Beyond Marx
Reproduction and Accumulation
Beyond Marx
Marx, an Advanced Radical Bourgeoisie Scientist?
Beyond Marx
Abstract Labor as a Specific Concrete Potential for Accumulation
References
About the Author
Index
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