Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle against Work, Money, and Financialization

Synopsis

Since His Groundbreaking Reading Capital Politically Was First Published In 1979, Harry Cleaver Has Been A Central Figure For Autonomist Marxists Seeking Practical, Political Strategies Within Marx's Work -as Opposed To Abstraction And Historical Inevitability. His Work Since Has Shown Not Only How Capitalism Seeks To Structure Every Aspect Of Our Lives Through And Around Work But Also How We Endlessly Fight Back In Ways That Reshape Capitalism Itself. Rupturing The Dialectic Brings This Project Up To The Present By Interpreting Capitalism's Most Recent Crises, Tracing Their Causes, And Demonstrating How Ordinary People Can, And Do, Rupture The Smooth Functioning Of The System That Exploits Them. -- Part I. On The Usefulness Of Marx's Labor Theory Of Value -- Why And How Economists Got Rid Of The Labor Theory Of Value -- Why And How Some Marxists Abandoned The Labor Theory Of Value -- The Substance Of Value: Abstract Labor Or Work As Social Control -- Can Value Be Measured? -- Exchange And Money As The Form Of Value -- Part Ii. Decoding Finance, Financial Crisis, And Financialization -- Decoding Finance And Financial Crisis -- Decoding Financialization -- Part Iii. Potential Strategies And Tactics For Rupturing The Dialectics Of Money -- Reforms And Revolution -- Our Use Of Money -- Restricting The Need For Money -- Conclusion. Harry Cleaver. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 291-307) And Index.