Invisible Leviathan : : Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism / / Murray Smith.
In this updated and expanded edition of Invisible Leviathan , Murray E.G. Smith critically explores and makes significant contributions to the debate surrounding Karl Marx’s ‘capitalist law of value’ and its corollary, the law of the falling rate of profit. A powerful case is presented that capitali...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Historical Materialism Book Series
177. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (395 pages). |
Notes: | First printed in 1994 as Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism Beyond Postmodernism by University of Toronto Press. |
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Other title: | Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Foreword / Preface to the Second Edition / Preface to the First (1994) Edition (Excerpts) / Acknowledgements / Invisible Leviathan: Marx’s Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism / The Value Abstraction and the Dialectic of Social Development / Science, Ideology and ‘Economic Value’ / Marx’s Capital and the Early Critiques / Currents within the Value Controversy / An Assessment of the Value Controversy / Value, Economy and Crisis / Socially Necessary Unproductive Labour, Valorisation and Crisis / Imperialism, Unequal Development and the Law of Value / ‘Testing Marx’ in the Twilight of Capitalism: Marxian Value Categories, National Income Accounts, and the Crisis of Valorisation / Beyond the Law of Value: Class Struggle and Socialist Transformation / Back Matter -- Bibliography / Index / |
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Summary: | In this updated and expanded edition of Invisible Leviathan , Murray E.G. Smith critically explores and makes significant contributions to the debate surrounding Karl Marx’s ‘capitalist law of value’ and its corollary, the law of the falling rate of profit. A powerful case is presented that capitalism has exhausted its potential to contribute to human progress. Humanity confronts a fateful choice: to allow this obsolescent system – which necessarily measures ‘wealth’ in terms of ‘abstract social labour’ and money profit – to destroy human civilisation; or to make the leap toward a global, egalitarian-socialist society in which the satisfaction of human need is the starting-point and the all-round development of each and every human individual the goal of the socio-economic life process. First printed in 1994 as Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism Beyond Postmodernism by University of Toronto Press. This second and revised edition includes a new Foreword by Michael Roberts, and a Preface to the Second Edition. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 900431220X |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Murray Smith. |