Ebook: Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis

In Marx on Capitalism, James Furner offers a new answer to the fundamental question of Marxism: can a philosophical thesis connecting capital, the state and classes with the desirability of socialism be developed from an analysis of the commodity? The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis is anchored in a systematic retranslation of Marx's writings, and critical engagement with a wide range of Anglophone and German language scholarship. It offers an antinomy-based strategy for grounding the value of social humanity in working-class agency, facilitates a dialectical derivation of the logic of political representation, and condemns capitalism as unjust without appeal to rights  Read more...