Cart
Free Shipping in Australia
Proud to be B-Corp

How to Read Marx's Capital Michael Heinrich

How to Read Marx's Capital By Michael Heinrich

How to Read Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich


$57.39
Condition - New
Only 3 left

Summary

With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital - Marx's foundational nineteenth century work on political economy - is by no means considered an easily understood text. Central concepts such as abstract labor, the value form, or the fetishism of commodities, can seem opaque

How to Read Marx's Capital Summary

How to Read Marx's Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters by Michael Heinrich

With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital - Marx's foundational nineteenth century work on political economy - is by no means considered an easily understood text. Central concepts such as abstract labor, the value form, or the fetishism of commodities, can seem opaque to us as first time readers, and the prospect of comprehending Marx's thought can be truly daunting. Until, that is, we pick up Michael Heinrich's How to Read Marx's Capital. Paragraph by paragraph, Heinrich provides extensive commentary and lucid explanations of questions and quandaries that arise when encountering Marx's original text. Suddenly, such seemingly gnarly chapters as The Labor Process and the Valorization Process and Money or the Circulation of Capital become refreshingly clear, as Heinrich explains just what we need to keep in mind when reading such a complex text. Deploying multiple appendices referring to other pertinent writings by Marx, Heinrich reveals what is relevant about Capital, and why we need to engage with it today. How to Read Marx's Capital provides an illuminating and indispensable guide to sorting through cultural detritus of a world whose political and economic systems are simultaneously imploding and exploding.

How to Read Marx's Capital Reviews

Praise for Michael Heinrich's An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital: Whether one is a 'traditional worldview Marxist' like myself, or a student who wants to understand this world we live in, or an activist who is committed to changing it, Michael Heinrich's succinct, lucid, compelling summary of the three volumes of Marx's Capital is a 'must read' in our time of crisis. -Paul LeBlanc, author, From Marx to Gramsci and Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience

About Michael Heinrich

Michael Heinrich taught economics for many years at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and was managing editor of PROKLA: Journal for Critical Social Science. He has written in depth on Marx's critique of political economy in his book, The Science of Value. His An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital is probably the most popular introduction to Marx's economic works in Germany. His Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society (Vol. I) is attracting growing praise. Alexander Locascio, translator of this book from German to English, has been active in the U.S. labor movement. His other translations include An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty First Century: An Introduction, and Karl Marx: and the Birth of Modern Society. He lives in Berlin with his family.

Additional information

NGR9781583678947
9781583678947
1583678948
How to Read Marx's Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters by Michael Heinrich
New
Paperback
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
20210802
448
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - How to Read Marx's Capital