Marx on Capitalism: The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis

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In Marx on Capitalism, James Furner offers a new answer to the fundamental question of Marxism: can a philosophical thesis connecting capital, the state and classes with the desirability of socialism be developed from an analysis of the commodity? The Interaction-Recognition-Antinomy Thesis is anchored in a systematic retranslation of Marx's writings, and critical engagement with a wide range of Anglophone and German language scholarship. It offers an antinomy-based strategy for grounding the value of social humanity in working-class agency, facilitates a dialectical derivation of the logic of political representation, and condemns capitalism as unjust without appeal to rights  Read more... 1. THE INTERACTION-RECOGNITION-ANTINOMY THESIS 1 The Interaction Component 2 The Recognition Component 3 The First Antinomy 4 The Second Antinomy 5 An Outline of the Argument Appendix: A Note on Translation 2. ANALYTICAL MARXISM 1 The Project of Analytical Marxism 2 Dialectical Contradiction 3 Intrastructuration 4 Conclusion 3. COMMODITY FORM PHILOSOPHY 1 Use-Value 2 Value 3 Commodities and Goods 4 Use-Values, Goods and Duties to the Whole 5 The Commodity, Dialectical Contradiction and Real Abstraction 6 Antinomies of the Commodity Form 4. ACTION 1 Capital’s Description of Human Labour 2 In-Order-To Motives and Because Motives 3 Orientation to an In-Order-To Motive 4 The Form of an In-Order-To Motive 5 Action and Abstraction 5. SOCIAL RELATIONS 1 Marx’s General Remarks on Social Relations 2 Schütz’s Typology of Social Action 3 Interaction as a Relation of Mutual Affecting 4 The Problem of Normativity 5 An Interactional Conception of a Social Relation of Production 6 Some Objections 7 The Objection from Structure 8 The Objection from Consciousness 9 The Problem of Legality 6. SYSTEM AND BEARER 1 A Generalised Interactions Conception of Social Structure 2 Sociological Thought and the Concept of Social Role 3 The Features of a System 4 The Capitalist Structure as a System 5 The Capitalist Structure as a System (Continued) 6 Actors as Bearers 7. PURCHASE AND SALE 1 Exchange 2 Independent Exchange of Products 3 Possession: Savigny and Marx 4 Commodities and Money 8. EXPLOITATION 1 The Quantitative Marxist View of Exploitation 2 A Non-normative Concept of Exploitation 3 Bazard, Marx and the Five Conditions for Exploitation 4 The Benefit Condition 5 The Harm Condition 6 The Causal Condition 7 The Consequence Condition 8 The Means-to-Ends Condition 9 The System Universalisability Conception of Exploitation 10 Capitalist Labour-Exploitation 11 The Exploitation and Need Problem 12 The Agency Problem 13 The Capitalism, Rights and Injustice Problem 14 Summary 9. RECOGNITION AND SELF-OWNERSHIP 1 A Pragmatic Conception of Recognition 2 Possession, Private Property Ownership and Recognition 3 As-If Mutual Recognition in Purchase and Sale 4 Marx’s Concept of a Person 5 Security and Self-Ownership 10. RECOGNITION AND BUREAUCRATIC DOMINATION 1 Marx’s General Conception of Domination 2 Domination and the Will 3 Domination and Alien Will 4 Domination and Recognition 5 Marx’s Conception of Domination Restated 6 Formal Subsumption and Real Subsumption 7 Domination and Formal Subsumption 8 Domination and Real Subsumption 9 The Recognition Condition and Occupational Identity 10 Summary 11. ANTINOMY AND STATE FORM 1 A Derivation of the Juridical Logic of Freedom of Choice 2 Individual Human Rights 3 The System of Capitalist Production and Popular Sovereignty 4 The Antinomy of Natural Rights and Popular Authorisation 5 Parliamentary Representation 6 The Separation of Powers 12. THE RIGHTS-ANTINOMY AND CLASS STRUGGLE 1 An Antagonistic Interdependency Conception of Classes 2 Class Antagonism at the Macro-Level 3 The Self-Consciousness of the Commodity 4 Capital’s Antinomy Passage: A Reconstruction 5 The Rights-Antinomy and the Capitalist Class Interest Claim 6 Interest Privilege and Possible Practical Awareness 7 The Rights-Antinomy, Recognition and Union Organisation 8 Working-Class Movements 9 A Resolution of Both Antinomies CONCLUSION 1 Exploitation and Injustice 2 The Disappearance of Analytical Marxism 3 The State of Capitalist Society 4 Revolutionary Awareness