Ebook: Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism

1 Introduction: the unfinished critique of Capital -- Part I Capitalism, past and present -- 2 Revisiting the 'expropriation of expropriators'in Marx's 'Capital' -- 3 'Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences': Marx on the economic cell form of Capital and theanalysis of capitalist social formations -- 4 The challenge of transcending Capital -- 5 The current crisis and the anachronism of value -- 6 Marx's new concept of class -- Part II Extending the critique of Capital -- 7 Revolution begins at home: rethinking Marx, reproduction and the class struggle -- 8 Towards a communist revolution: gender and class in Capital, Volume I -- 9 Marx and Engels: the intellectual relationship revisited from an ecological perspective -- 10 Marx's Capital and the earth: an ecological critique of political economy -- 11 Five explicit and implicit notions of revolution in Capital, Volume I, as seen from a multilinear, peripheral angle -- 12 Had Capital been written today -- Part III The politics of Capital -- 13 Reading Capital as political theory: on the political theory of the value-form -- 14 The neglected chapters on wages in Capital -- 15 The persistence of Marx's humanism, from the doctoral dissertation on Epicurus to Capital -- 16 The ambivalence of cooperation -- 17 Toward a Marxist revision of Marx's revision of Marxism in Capital;Faced with a new crisis of capitalism, many scholars are now looking back to the author whose ideas were too hastily dismissed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. During the last decade, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. It has been reprinted in new editions throughout the world and the contemporary relevance of its pages is being discussed again. Today, Marx's analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly than they did in his own time and Capital continues to provide an effective framework to understand the nature of capitalism and its transformations. This volume includes the proceedings of the biggest international conference held in the world to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Capital's publication. The book is divided into three parts: I) "Capitalism, Past and Present"; II) "Extending the Critique of Capital"; III) "The Politics of Capital". It contains the contributions of globally renowned scholars from 13 countries and multiple academic disciplines who offer diverse perspectives, and critical insights into the principal contradictions of contemporary capitalism while pointing to alternative economic and social models. Together, they reconsider the most influential historical debates on Capital and provide new interpretations of Marx's magnum opus in light of themes rarely associated with Capital, such as gender, ecology, and non-European societies. The book is an indispensable source for academic communities who are increasingly interested in rediscovering Marx beyond 20th century Marxism. Moreover, it will be of great appeal to students, as well as established scholars interested in critique of capitalism and socialist theory.