Rupturing the dialectic : the struggle against work, financial crisis, and beyond / Harry Cleaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleaver, Harry, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Labor.

Marxian economics.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Physical Description:

323 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chico, CA : AK Press, [2017]

Summary:

Since Reading Capital Politically was first published in 1979, Harry Cleaver has been a central figure for autonomist Marxists seeking practical, political strategies within Marx's work. Rupturing the Dialectic brings this project up to the present by interpreting capitalism's most recent crises and demonstrating how ordinary men and women can, and do, rupture the smooth functioning of the system that exploits them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. On the usefulness of Marx's labor theory of value

Why and how economists got rid of the labor theory of value

Why and how some Marxists abandoned the labor theory of value

The substance of value: abstract labor or work as social control

Can value be measured?

Exchange and money as the form of value

Part II. Decoding finance, financial crisis, and financialization

Decoding finance and financial crisis

Decoding financialization

Part III. Potential strategies and tactics for rupturing the dialectics of money

Reforms and revolution

Our use of money

Restricting the need for money

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-307) and index.

ISBN:

9781849352703

1849352704

OCLC:

989799794