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Reconstructing capitalism's political theory for liberation seekers.

Marx's Inferno could be a good read for individuals interested in political theory, socialism, and workers' movement. The book offers a unique perspective on Karl Marx's Capital and examines the motives and aims of the workers' movement. It cleverly engages the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. If you want to understand how Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism and how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world, then this book is for you.

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Marx's Inferno : The Political Theory of Capital

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ISBN: 9780691172903
Date of Publication: 2016-12-20
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Economics, History
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Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante's Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers' emancipation to the secret depths of the modern -social Hell.- In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx's interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx's theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world.
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Reconstructing capitalism's political theory for liberation seekers.

Marx's Inferno could be a good read for individuals interested in political theory, socialism, and workers' movement. The book offers a unique perspective on Karl Marx's Capital and examines the motives and aims of the workers' movement. It cleverly engages the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. If you want to understand how Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism and how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today's world, then this book is for you.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.