Twenty-First-Century Capital: Critical Post-Soviet Marxist Reflections

di Aleksander Buzgalin (Autore)

Andrey Kolganov (Autore)

Renfrey Clarke (Traduttore)

Manchester University Press, 2021

How would Marx have understood twenty-first-century capitalism? For Buzgalin and Kolganov, the answer lies in a theoretical investigation of how and why the fundamental elements of capitalism– commodities, money and capital – have changed since the publication of Marx’s Capital more than 150 years ago. Introducing the concepts of social creativity, markets for simulacra and virtual fictitious capital – Buzgalin and Kolganov offer a recovery and development of Marx’s understanding of social transformations. Twenty-first century capitalism not only demonstrates Marxism’s relevance to the core economic questions of our time and its superiority over neoclassical economics, but it leads English-language readers into the ‘undiscovered country’ of Soviet and post-Soviet critical Marxism. How might modern Marxism respond to the contemporary challenges of the commodification of knowledge and information? And can it arrive at something resembling a Capital for the twenty-first century? This accessible and comprehensive account is essential reading for those wanting to understand the problems of the modern economy. -- .

• Autore: Aleksander Buzgalin, Andrey Kolganov
• Traduttore: Renfrey Clarke
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Collana: Geopolitical Economy
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 544 gr.
• EAN: 9781526131454

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