Title: Pre-Capitalistic Forms of Production and Primitive Accumulation. Marx’s Historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital
Abstract: In this book, the author finds a strategy that allows one to comprehend and to go through the crisis by means of critique. This is a critique that unfolds the crisis and opens up new revolutionary possibilities. The analysis of accumulation in Capital has a target different from that of the analysis of the pre-capitalist forms in the Grundrisse , in which Marx was looking for a theory of collapse of a productive form in the transition to a new, higher one. In Capital, Marx works with a different concept of crisis and, therefore, with a different concept of accumulation. As a matter of fact, when the technological innovation becomes widespread, the growing productivity of labour obtained through its employment becomes socially dominant and the capitalist can no longer gain social surplus-value though his growing productivity. Keywords:accumulation; capital; capitalist; Grundrisse ; Marx; pre-capitalist forms; surplus-value
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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