Marx’s Emphasis on Production

Desmond McNeill ()
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Desmond McNeill: University of Oslo

Chapter 11 in Fetishism and the Theory of Value, 2021, pp 191-204 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract I argue that it is enlightening to consider not only production but also exchange and consumption as social relations. In this chapter, I note the central place that is occupied by labour and production in Marx’s theory and seek to better understand why this is so, which relates in part to Marx’s conception of human nature. I argue that to place such a heavy emphasis on labour was in no way novel for economists of his time. The originality of Marx, I suggest, was his emphasis on the social.

Keywords: Marx; Human nature; Labour; Social relations of production; Alienation; Species-being; Dumont; E.P. Thompson (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56123-9_11

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