Automatic Fetish - The Law of Value in Marx''s Capital

Why the neglected third volume of Capital holds the key to Marx's theory of value

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Unreconstructing Marx: The Perceptual Physics of Capital

Part I
THE PHYSICS OF CAPITAL AND THE MYSTIFICATION OF SURPLUS-VALUE

1 Rate of Profit: Production
2 General Rate of Profit: Competition
3 Falling Rate of Profit: Crisis

Part II
SHAPESHIFTING: CAPITAL’S SOCIAL FORMS (WHERE MYSTIFICATION OF SURPLUS-VALUE DEEPENS AT THE SURFACE)
4 Transformation of Profit I: Commercial Profit
5 Transformation of Profit II: Interest
6 Transformation of Profit III: Ground-Rent

Conclusion: The Revenues and Their Sources: The Three Faces of Surplus-Value

Index

About the author

Beverley Best works on Marx's critique of political economy and teaches in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. She is the author of Marx and Dynamic of the Capital Formation: An Aesthetics of Political Economy, and co-editor (with Werner Bonefeld and Chris O'Kane) of The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. She is the vice-president of the Marxist Literary Group.

Summary

Why the neglected third volume of Capital holds the key to Marx's theory of value

Product details

• Authors: Beverley Best, Best Beverley
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2024
• EAN: 9781804294802
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-480-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Economic theory & philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, Economic theory and philosophy