Marx and the Common: From Capital to the Late Writings (Historical Materialism, 105)

In Marx and the Common , Luca Basso provides a detailed reconstruction of the late Marx's connection of the collective dimension of communism and the element of individual realisation. Through an original analysis of a vast range of Marx's writings - from Capital to his political texts and scientific notes - the author brings out an articulated historical-theoretical landscape in which the notion of 'individual' is intertwined with the ideas of 'class', 'society' and 'community'. Rooting his analysis in the revolutionary power of the workers' 'acting in common', Basso brings to the fore an anthropological dynamic in Marx, irreducible to either liberal individualism or any kind of organicist approach. Contents......Page 5 Introduction......Page 7 The ‘Enigma’ of the Commodity......Page 12 The Question of Fetishism: Another Name for ‘Ideology’?......Page 20 The Constitution of Individuality, between the ‘Economic’ and the ‘Juridical’: The ‘Eden of the Rights of Man’......Page 29 From the Commodity to Capital, between Production and Circulation: The ‘Trinity Formula’......Page 37 The Person-as-Mask: A Hobbesian Marx?......Page 46 Has Fetishism Always Existed? ‘Excursus’ on Precapitalist Forms......Page 54 The ‘New’ Anthropology of Capitalism: From the Grundrisse to Capital......Page 60 The Study of Communitarian Forms, between the Natural and Historical Sciences: The Ethnological Notebooks......Page 70 Beyond Europe......Page 83 The Russian Commune and the Conditions of Possibility of Communism......Page 91 The Coexistence of Noncapitalist and Capitalist Structures......Page 105 ‘Trennung’ and Capitalism: The Erosion of Common Property......Page 114 Again on Alienation?......Page 121 The Moments of Separation: Co-Operation, Manufacture, Modern Industry......Page 127 The Factory and Class Formation......Page 141 The ‘Political Character’ of Class: From the German Ideology to Capital Volume III......Page 152 The Struggle over the Working Day: Between Reforms and Revolution......Page 161 Class and Organisation, between Anarchism and Statism: Marx versus Bakunin and Lassalle......Page 169 The Paris Commune: A ‘Working-Class Government’......Page 183 The ‘Metamorphous’ Character of Politics: The Correction of the Manifesto......Page 195 Communism and the ‘Totally Developed Individual’: A Scenario Free of Fetishism?......Page 202 Conclusion......Page 208 References......Page 213 Index......Page 227 By Luca Basso ; Translation By David Broder. First Published In Italian By Ombre Corte Edizioni As Agire In Comune. Antropologia E Politica Nell'ultimo Marx, Verona, 2012. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. A history of the Canadian Military Police from 1940 to 2015, the 75th anniversary of the Military Police.