The Unfinished System of Karl Marx: Critically Reading Capital as a Challenge for our Times (Luxemburg International Studies in Political Economy)

This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "systematic presentation" of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'. The text introduces the reader to a key problem ́of Marx's largely implicit epistemology, by exploring the systematic character of his exposition and the difference of this kind of 'systematicity' from Hegelian philosophical system construction. The volume contributes to establishing a new understanding of the critique of political economy, as it has been articulated in various debates since the 1960s - especially in France, Germany, and Italy - and as it had already been initiated by Marx and some of his followers, with Rosa Luxemburg in a key role. All the chapters are transdisciplinary in nature, and explore the modern day relevance of Marx's and Luxemburg's theoretical analysis of the dominance of the capitalist mode of production. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii The Challenge of the Incompleteness of the Third Volume of Capital for Theoretical and Political Work Today (Judith Dellheim, Frieder Otto Wolf)....Pages 1-30 Taking Up the Challenge of Living Labour A ‘Backwards-Looking Reconstruction’ of Recent Italian Debates on Marx’s Theory of the Capitalist Mode of Production (Riccardo Bellofiore, Frieder Otto Wolf)....Pages 31-89 Capitalist Communism: Marx’s Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in Volume III of Capital (Fred Moseley)....Pages 91-128 Another Productive and Challenging ‘Incompleteness’ of Capital, Volume III (Frieder Otto Wolf)....Pages 129-150 ‘Secular Stagnation’ and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy (Joachim Bischoff, Stephan Krüger, Christoph Lieber)....Pages 151-185 Profit, Elasticity and Nature (Kohei Saito)....Pages 187-217 The Social Constitution of Commodity Fetishism, Money Fetishism and Capital Fetishism (Georgios Daremas)....Pages 219-249 Marx’s Critical Notes on the Classical Theory of Interest (Jan Toporowski)....Pages 251-263 ‘Joint-Stock Company’ and ‘Share Capital’ as Economic Categories of Critical Political Economy (Judith Dellheim)....Pages 265-298 Capital, Volume III—Gaps Seen from South Africa: Marx’s Crisis Theory, Luxemburg’s Capitalist/Non-capitalist Relations and Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism (Patrick Bond)....Pages 299-330 Foreshadowing of the Future in the Critical Analysis of the Present (Michael Brie)....Pages 331-358 Back Matter ....Pages 359-368 This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "systematic presentation" of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'. The text introduces the reader to a key problemþof Marx's largely implicit epistemology, by exploring the systematic character of his exposition and the difference of this kind of 'systematicity' from Hegelian philosophical system construction. The volume contributes to establishing a new understanding of the critique of political economy, as it has been articulated in various debates since the 1960s - especially in France, Germany, and Italy - and as it had already been initiated by Marx and some of his followers, with Rosa Luxemburg in a key role. All the chapters are transdisciplinary in nature, and explore the modern day relevance of Marx's and Luxemburg's theoretical analysis of the dominance of the capitalist mode of production This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "systematic presentation" of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'. The text introduces the reader to a key probleḿof Marx's largely implicit epistemology, by exploring the systematic character of his exposition and the difference of this kind of 'systematicity' from Hegelian philosophical system construction. The volume contributes to establishing a new understanding of the critique of political economy, as it has been articulated in various debates since the 1960s - especially in France, Germany, and Italy - and as it had already been initiated by Marx and some of his followers, with Rosa Luxemburg in a key role. All the chapters are transdisciplinary in nature, and explore the modern day relevance of Marx's and Luxemburg's theoretical analysis of the dominance of the capitalist mode of production Judith Dellheim, Frieder Otto Wolf, Editors Includes Bibliographical References And Index.