A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse

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David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx’s Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as “a work of fundamental importance,” but declared “its unusual form” and “obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers.” David Harvey’s Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of Capital in a way that will reach as wide an audience as possible. Marx’s stated ambition for this text - where he was thinking aloud about some of possible metamorphoses of capitalism - is to reveal “the exact development of the concept of capital as the fundamental concept of modern economics, just as capital itself is the foundation of bourgeois society.” While respecting Marx’s desire to “bring out all the contradictions of bourgeois production, as well as the boundary where it drives beyond itself,” David Harvey also pithily illustrates the relevance of Marx’s text to understanding the troubled state of contemporary capitalism. Cover Page Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Author’s Introduction 1. Marx’s Introduction Pages 83–111 2. The Circulation of Money Pages 115–238 3. Alien Capital Meets Alien Labor Pages 239–304 4. The Production of Capital Pages 304–70 5. Production and Realization Pages 373–458 6. Capital’s Becoming: Past, Present and Future Pages 459–71 7. The Space and Time of Turnover and the Realization of Capital Pages 516–84 8. Turnover Times and the Circulation of Labor Capacity Pages 584–678 9. The Power of Fixed Capital Pages 640–701 10. Fixed and Circulating Capital Pages 702–41 11. The Falling Rate of Profit and Other Matters Pages 745–78 12. Class and Political Economy Pages 776–893 13. Concluding Thoughts Appendix: Marx’s Plans for Future Work Notes Index