A History of Marxian Economics, Volume 2: 1929-1990 by M. C. Howard, John E. King

For a New Critique of Political Economy

The catastrophic fiscal, social and political main issue of our time demands a brand new and unique critique of political financial system - a rethinking of Marx's venture within the very assorted stipulations of twenty-first century capitalism.
Stiegler argues that at the present time the proletarian has to be reconceptualized because the financial agent whose wisdom and reminiscence are confiscated by way of machines. This new feel of the time period ‘proletarian' is better understood via connection with Plato's critique of exteriorized reminiscence. by way of bringing jointly Plato and Marx, Stiegler can exhibit how a generalized proletarianization now encompasses not just the muscular process, as Marx observed it, but additionally the worried method of the so-called artistic staff within the info industries. The proletarians of the previous are disadvantaged in their functional information, while the latter are shorn in their theoretical perform, and either be afflicted by a confiscation of the very hazard of a real artwork of living.

But the mechanisms at paintings during this new and accentuated kind of proletarianization are the very mechanisms that could spur a reversal of the method. this sort of reversal could suggest an important contrast among one's existence paintings, originating in otium (leisure dedicated to the strategies of the self), and the task, consisting in a negotium (the negotiation and calculation, more and more limited to temporary expectations), resulting in the need of a brand new belief of monetary value.

This brief textual content deals a very good advent to Stiegler's paintings whereas even as representing a political name to hands within the face of a deepening fiscal and social crisis.

The Communist Necessity: Prolegomena To Any Future Radical Theory

“There was once a time after we proclaimed that we have been a part of a gorgeous and fragmented chaos of affinity teams, conflicted organisations, disorganized rebels, all of whom have been by some means a part of an identical social flow that used to be more than the sum of its elements. We have been extra properly a disorganized mob of enraged plebeians shaking our fists at a disciplined imperial military.

Ideology

This learn is split into 3 components: the classical culture; Althusser and after; and sleek debates. It contains chapters on classification cognizance, ideology and utopia, and the epistemology of sociology, the paintings of Georg Lukas, Karl Mannheim and Lucien Goldman respectively.

Marxism and Materialism: A Study in Marxist Theory of Knowledge

Argument that Marx has a realist ontology and a correspondence concept of fact. His perspectives are in comparison to either Hegel's and Kant's. This interpretation departs from extra Hegelian, 'idealist' interpretations that regularly depend on false impression a few of the paintings of the early Marx. there's additionally a dialogue and partial defence of Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.