Marx and the common : from Capital to the late writings / by Luca Basso ; translation by David Broder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basso, Luca, author.

Contributor:

Broder, David, translator.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 1570-1522 105.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 105

Standardized Title:

Agire in comune. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Capitalism.

Individualism.

Physical Description:

vi, 224 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

In Marx and the Common, Luca Basso provides a detailed reconstruction of the late Marx's connection of the collect dimension of communism and the element of individual realization. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Fetishism and Subjects: Between Reality and Mystification 6

The 'Enigma' of the Commodity 6

The Question of Fetishism: Another Name for 'Ideology'? 14

The Constitution of Individuality, between the 'Economic' and the 'Juridical': The 'Eden of the Rights of Man' 23

From the Commodity to Capital, between Production and Circulation: The 'Trinity Formula' 31

The Person-as-Mask: A Hobbesian Marx? 40

Has Fetishism Always Existed? 'Excursus' on Precapitalist Forms 48

2 Ethnology and Forms of 'the Common' 54

The 'New' Anthropology of Capitalism: From the Grundrisse to Capital 54

The Study of Communitarian Forms, between the Natural and Historical Sciences: The Ethnological Notebooks 64

Beyond Europe 77

The Russian Commune and the Conditions of Possibility of Communism 85

The Coexistence of Noncapitalist and Capitalist Structures 99

3 Individual Separation 108

'Trennung' and Capitalism: The Erosion of Common Property 108

Again on Alienation? 115

The Moments of Separation: Co-Operation, Manufacture, Modern Industry 121

The Factory and Class Formation 135

4 Subjectivity and Class: The Space of Politics 146

The 'Political Character' of Class: From the German Ideology to Capital Volume in 146

The Struggle over the Working Day: Between Reforms and Revolution 155

Class and Organisation, between Anarchism and Statism: Marx versus Bakunin and Lassalle 163

The Paris Commune: A 'Working-Class Government' 177

The 'Metamorphous' Character of Politics: The Correction of the Manifesto 189

Communism and the 'Totally Developed Individual': A Scenario Free of Fetishism? 196.

Notes:

Translated from the Italian.

"This book is a translation of an updated and revised edition of Ombre Corte Edizioni as Agire in comune. Antropologia e politica nell'ultimo Marx, Verona, 2012." -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004296886

9004296883

OCLC:

920551915