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

Wed Dec 11 19:44:48 GMT 2013





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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