Time in Marx : : the categories of time in Marx's Capital / / by Stavros Tombazos.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series, volume 61
• Author: Tombazos, Stavros.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book demonstrates that the basic concepts of the three volumes of Capital come under different categories of time: \'time of production\' in the first volume is linear, “time of circulation” in the second is circular, while in the third volume “organic time” is the unity of the two. Capitalist relations emerge as a definite organisation of social time that obeys its own intrinsic criteria and operates as an autonomous, social subject. Reading Capital from this perspective, it becomes possible to restore its dialectical (Hegelian) logic – not in order to reveal the “real” Marx, but as a means to contribute to the understanding of the real, capitalist world with its present-day fetishes, its explosive contradictions and its ever deeper crises.

Table of Contents

part one. The time of production: section one: The commodity and labour time : section two: From simple circulation to capital : section three: The time of the process of production -- part two. The time of circulation: section one: The organic movement of capital : section two: The turnover times of capital -- part three. Organic time: the unity of the time of production and the time of circulation: section one: Surplus value, profit and time : section two: The sub-divisions of profit or fetishism completely realised : section three: The contradictions of the capitalist organisation of time.