[ecrea] Capitalism: A Companion to Marx's Economy Critique

Please allow me to present my recent book:

Capitalism: A Companion to Marx's Economy Critique
By Johan Fornäs
Published by Routledge 2013
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415823425/
ISBN 978-0-415-82342-5
353 pages

This accessible presentation of Karl Marx's theory of capitalism offers 
a guide and summary of all three volumes of Capital, situating Marx's 
ideas in context, remaining faithful to the concepts and structure of 
his work. By introducing Marx's economy critique and thereby explaining 
capitalism for beginners, it will be of interest to anyone who wants to 
understand how today's crisis-ridden society has emerged and is able to 
intensify its own deep inner contradictions, while sustaining the seeds 
of its own revolution. It aims at activists and anyone else who wants to 
catch up with how Marx explained capitalism, but is equally useful to 
students throughout the social sciences and humanities, including 
sociology, social theory, economics, business studies, history, cultural 
studies, and politics.

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Commodity and Money 4. >From 
Money to Capital 5. Surplus 6. Production 7. Accumulation 8. Primitive 
Accumulation 9. Circulation of Capital 10. Reproduction of the Total 
Capital 11. The Rate of Profit 12. Crises 13. Trade, Banks and Land 14. 
Mystifying Realities 15. Futures. Postscript. References

See also Christian Fuchs' review in tripleC:
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/488

"Johan Fornäs has overall produced an accessible, well-written, 
pedagogically smart accompanying guide to Marx's three volumes of 
Capital that will help readers to better understand and make sense of 
these books... In the persistent situation of crisis, reading Marx is 
more important than ever. Johan Fornäs' book can be a way into the world 
of Marx that every student and scholar should enter in order to 
interpret and change the world... Capitalism. A Companion to Marx's 
Economy Critique is a highly student-friendly and student-relevant 
textbook..."

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