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Scientific criticism; marxism

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Conceived as a slow and inexorable path of criticism of the ideology of the bourgeois world, this collection is divided into three sections. The first: Mystification: politics and religion is dedicated to philosophy. It is in the philosophy of his time that Marx found the theoretical tools to develop his critique of the bourgeois, materialistic, dialectical and therefore revolutionary society. In the second section Crisis: reforms and conflicts, Marx's theory becomes a method of analysis of the present, a powerful epistemological apparatus that makes it possible to shed light on the intrinsically contradictory character of contemporary capitalist societies. Finally, the last section: Globalisation: resistance and fights reconstructs Di Marco's approach to the "political" question. Here his interpretation of Marx's work is filtered through the relationship with the tradition of Italian operaism, to which the author recognizes the merit of having placed the accent on revolutionary subjectivity, finding however problematic his progressive estrangement from the dialectical core of Marxism. It is in the need to re-establish the center of the Marxist criticism of reality in the capital-labour conflict that can be identified the thread of the Marxist commitment of Giuseppe Antonio Di Marco, who, convinced of the actuality and usefulness of the Marxist categories, tests them against the contradictions and conflicts of the present time. Pensata come un percorso lento e inesorabile di critica all’ideologia del mondo borghese la presente raccolta si articola in tre sezioni. La prima, Mistificazioni: politica e religione, è dedicata alla filosofia. È nella filosofia del suo tempo infatti che Marx trova gli strumenti teorici per sviluppare quella sua critica della società borghese, materialista, dialettica e per questo rivoluzionaria. Nella seconda sezione, Crisi: riforme e conflitti, la teoria di Marx diventa un metodo d’analisi del presente, un potente apparato epistemologico che permette di far luce sul carattere intrinsecamente contraddittorio della società capitalistica contemporanea. L’ultima sezione, Globalizzazione: resistenza e lotta, infine, ricostruisce l’approccio di Di Marco alla questione “politica”. Qui la sua interpretazione dell’opera di Marx è filtrata dal rapporto con la tradizione dell’operaismo italiano al quale l’autore riconosce il merito di aver posto l’accento sulla soggettività rivoluzionaria, trovando tuttavia problematico il suo progressivo allontanamento dal nucleo dialettico del marxismo. È nella necessità di ristabilire il centro della critica marxiana della realtà nel conflitto capitale-lavoro che può essere individuato il filo conduttore dell’impegno marxiano di Giuseppe Antonio Di Marco il quale, convinto dell’attualità e utilità delle categorie marxiane, le mette alla prova delle contraddizioni e della conflittualità del tempo presente.

Marxism --- critique fo ideology --- conflict --- globalization

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This is an age of crisis: economic, political, environmental, and social. Yet the nature of contemporary crisis is often misunderstood. Crisis, rather than being accidental or episodic -- as is too often assumed -- has been a regular feature of state practice in the neoliberal austerity regimes of contemporary capitalism. In this timely work Jeff Shantz gives special attention to the particular manufactured crises associated with austerity regimes and conditions of precarity within contemporary capitalism, and how Crisis States differ from other forms of state practice.Crisis is a powerful weapon of states and capital in the pursuit of accumulation, exploitation, and control. Engaging insights from anarchism and autonomous Marxism, Shantz lays bare the real nature and character of crisis as political and social pursuits of state and capital under precarious capitalism.Attention is also given to social resistance under crisis state conditions. Contemporary capitalism renders the oppressed and exploited precarious at the same time as opportunities are opened to render the system itself precarious. Understanding Crisis States and precarious capitalism is crucial in considering prospects for resistance.

Anarchism. --- anarchism --- Marxism --- US politics --- political theory --- capitalism

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Value without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his departure from Marx’s central insights about the fetish character of the capitalist mode of production – a departure that Lange shows can be traced back to the failed epistemology of value developed in Uno’s earliest writings. By disavowing the complex relation between value and fetish that structures Marx’s critique, Uno adopts the paradigms of neoclassical theories to present an apology rather than a critique of capitalism. Readership: All interested in Marxism and its non-European reception, students and instructors in the humanities and economics, Japanese intellectual history, all interested in a deeper understanding Marx‘s theory of value.

Kawakami, Hajime, --- Heshang, Zhao, --- 河上肇, --- 河上, 肇 --- Marxism & Communism --- Marxism and Communism --- Capitalism. --- Economics. --- Marxian economics. --- Value. --- Uno, Ko¯zo¯, --- Uno, Kōzō,

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Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism as totality in the present day. Author Mariano Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. Using current examples the book also examines concerns such as free labour and the pivotal role of intellectual property. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time.

intellectual property --- marxism --- materialism --- capitalism --- cognitive --- knowledge --- Information technology --- Capitalism --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects.