Why Marx? A Story of Capital

Michael A. Lebowitz
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Michael A. Lebowitz: Simon Fraser University

Chapter 1 in Beyond Capital, 2003, pp 1-15 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Why bother to talk about Marx or Marxism in the twenty-first century? Marx wrote in the nineteenth century, and a lot has changed since then — not the least of which is capitalism. So, rather than resurrect a long-dead economist who studied nineteenth-century capitalism in Western Europe, why not just look at what modern economists have to say, or, if we don’t like that, why not do what Marx himself did — analyse the modern economic system?

Keywords: Capitalist Production; Capitalist Relation; Surplus Labour; Relative Surplus; Capitalist Mode (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403943729_1

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