In Marx's Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse

Contents......Page 5
Introduction: In Marx’s Laboratory......Page 7
Part One Achievements and Limits of the Grundrisse......Page 21
The Grundrisse after Capital, or How to Re-read Marx Backwards......Page 23
Method: From the Grundrisse to Capital......Page 49
The Four Levels of Abstraction of Marx’s Concept of ‘Capital’. Or, Can We Consider the Grundrisse the Most Advanced Version of Marx’s Theory of Capital?......Page 77
Part Two Abstract Labour, Value and Money......Page 105
The Practical Truth of Abstract Labour......Page 107
Unavoidable Crises: Reflections on Backhaus and the Development of Marx’s Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse......Page 127
Part Three The Concept of Capital......Page 153
The Transformation of Money into Capital......Page 155
The Concept of Capital in the Grundrisse......Page 183
Part Four Technology, Domination, Emancipation......Page 201
The ‘Fragment on Machines’: A Marxian Misconception in the Grundrisse and its Overcoming in Capital......Page 203
The ‘General Intellect’ in the Grundrisse and Beyond......Page 219
The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital......Page 239
From the Grundrisse to Capital and Beyond: Then and Now......Page 271
Part Five Competition, Cycles and Crisis......Page 289
The Whole and the Parts: The Early Development of Marx’s Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in the Grundrisse......Page 291
Marx’s Grundrisse and the Monetary Business-Cycle......Page 309
Crisis and the Rate of Profit in Marx’s Laboratory......Page 317
Part Six Society and History in the Grundrisse......Page 335
Between Pre-Capitalist Forms and Capitalism: The Problem of Society in the Grundrisse......Page 337
Second Nature: Gender in Marx’s Grundrisse......Page 353
Uneven Developments: From the Grundrisse to Capital......Page 377
Pre-Capitalistic Forms of Production and Primitive Accumulation. Marx’s Historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital......Page 399
References......Page 419
Index of Names......Page 435
Index of Subjects......Page 438