Marx's 'grundrisse' And Hegel's 'logic' (rle Marxism) (routledge Library Editions: Marxism)

Marx’s Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx’s early and late work. It is also a crucial text in elucidating Marx’s debt to the idealist philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. This book, first published in 1988, is the first full-length study of that relationship, in a thorough textual analysis which makes the connections explicit and also the Grundrisse’s relations to the works of Adam Smith and Aristotle. This book argues that Marx’s critique of political economy, and his critique of Hegel, are double interrelated. Not only did Marx adapt Hegelian logic in order to analyse the economic categories crucial to modern society but it is argued that those logical categories were themselves seen as reflections of the productive processes of contemporary commercial society. Uchida reveals a conceptual structure common to the apparently rarefied world of Hegelian conceptual logic and to the supposedly common-sensical world of economic science. Demonstrating this is a considerable achievement, and it allows us to consider precisely what is valuable today in Marx’s critical commentary on this conceptual structure and on the type of society in which it is manifested. Uchida’s subject, like Marx’s, is ‘the force of capital on modern life’. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Editor’s Introduction List of Abbreviations Preface 1 The Introduction to the Grundrisse and the Doctrine of the Notion Production in general and ‘the life-process’ Critique of political economy and production in general The method of political economy and ‘analytical method, synthetic method, the simple, and classification’ Mode of production and ideology, and ‘the absolute idea’ 2 The ‘Chapter on Money’ and the Doctrine of Being Product, commodity and money, and ‘identity, difference, opposition and contradiction’ The two aspects of the commodity and ‘likeness and unlikeness’ The commodity-owner and ‘ideality of being-for-itself Money-subject and ‘substance as subject’ Price and ‘quantum’ Value-form and the process of exchange, and ‘one and many’ Means of circulation and ‘measure’ Treasure and ‘contradiction dissolves itself 3 The ‘Chapter on Capital’ and the Doctrine of Essence, Part One: ‘Generality of Capital’ The transition from money to capital and ‘positing reflection’ The exchange between capital and labour, the labour-process and the valorisation-process, and ‘form, substance, matter and content’ Labour-power as general substance and ‘relation of substantiality’ Component parts of capital and ‘the whole and the parts’ Manifestation as the force of capital and ‘force and its manifestation’ Surplus capital and ‘actuality’ The conversion of the law of appropriation and ‘absolute necessity’ The reproduction of the capital relation and ‘causality’ First critique of Hegel’s system 4 The ‘Chapter on Capital’ and the Doctrine of Essence, Part Two: ‘Particularity of Capital’ Particularity of capital and ‘judgement’ The general determination and ‘the categorical judgement’ The particularising determination and ‘the hypothetical judgement’ Properties of circulating capital and fixed capital, and ‘force and its manifestation’ The conversion of the law of appropriation and ‘causality’ The individual determination and ‘the disjunctive judgement’ Second critique of Hegel’s system 5 The ‘Chapter on Capital’ and the Doctrine of Essence, Part Three: ‘Individuality of Capital’ Profit and ‘syllogism’ Profit of capital and ‘positing reflection, ground, identity and difference’ Productive capital and ‘the whole and its parts’, ‘force and its manifestation’ Form of production and form of distribution, and ‘causality’ Third critique of Hegel’s system Appendix Notes Select Bibliography Index Marx's Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx's early and late work. It is also a crucial text in elucidating Marx's debt to the idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel. This book is the first full-length study of that relationship, in a thorough textual analysis which makes the connections explicit and also the Grundrisse 's relations to the works of Adam Smith and Aristotle. This book argues that Marx's critique of political economy, and his critique of Hegel, are doubly interrelated. Not only did Marx adapt Hegelian logic in order to analyse the economic categories crucial to human society but it is argued that these logical categories were themselves seen as reflections of the productive forces of contemporary commercial society. Uchida reveals a conceptual structure common to the apparently rarefied world of Hegelian conceptual logic and to the supposedly commonsensical world of economic science. Demonstrating that this is a considerable achievement, and it allows us to consider precisely what is valuable today in Marx's critical commentary on this conceptual structure and on the type of society in which it is manifested. Uchida's subject, like Marx's, is 'the force of capital on modern life'. In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party leaders and intellectuals Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein against what they perceived to be misunderstandings of Marxism propagated by members of the Social-Democratic Federation (SDF) in England and by the socialist leader Wilhelm Liebknecht in Germany. The debate raised basic questions of socialist theory, including whether the program of Marx and Engels called for scholarly study, parliamentary democracy, and gradual social evolution, or for Utopian speculation, economic collapse George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that 'If there is hope, it lies in the proles.' A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx's expectations, and seems unlikely ever to do so. How could Marx have entertained the notion that the proletariat would emancipate humanity from capitalism and from class rule itself? This book, first published in 1988, attempts an explanation by examining the sources and development of Marx's concept of the proletariat. It contends that t This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy - Marxism - to sustained criticism. Les Johnston argues that Marxism cannot provide the foundations for a rigorous socialist theory or an effective socialist politics. A fundamental element of this criticism is the suggestion that the problem of 'reductionism' which has preoccupied Marxists is a red herring. Marxism's problem is not its reductionism but its theoretical incoherence. Marxism is not 'deterministic', for there is invariably an indeterminate relation 1. The introduction to the Grundrisse and the doctrine of the notion -- 2. The 'chapter on money' and the doctrine of being -- 3. The 'chapter on capital' and the doctrine of essence, pt. 1: 'generality of capital' -- 4. The 'chapter on capital' and the doctrine of essence, pt. 2: 'particularity of capital' -- 5. The 'chapter on capital' and the doctrine of essence, pt. 3: 'individuality of capital' This book is the first full-length study of the relationship between the books, in a thorough textual analysis which makes the connections explicit, and also the "Grundrisse's" relations to the works of Adam Smith and Aristotle. Hiroshi Uchida ; Edited By Terrell Carver. Translation Of: Chūki Marukusu No Keizaigaku Hihan. Chapter 3. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 160-163. Discusses material in the exhaustive edition of the works of Marx and Engels, the Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe, 1927-1932