The diversity and historicity of capitalism according to Volume One of Capital: Origins, developments, transformations, and differentiations
Haber, Stéphane
The diversity and historicity of capitalism according to Volume One of Capital: Origins, developments, transformations, and differentiations - 2015.
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Marx is not a thinker of the diversity of capitalism. Thus, Volume I of Capital seems to pose the British model (machinery, industrial revolution, endless pursuit of improving labor productivity) as the mature coherent and self-sustaining form that capitalism is able to achieve, a form in which the sharpening of its constituent contradictions can only occur. However, discreetly, Volume I also appears sometimes to be on the path of a reflection on the significant space of variations still open for capitalism and, more radically, upon the “non-British” forms that can characterize its history and its geography. At a time when it is crucial, both epistemologically and politically, to learn to decline the term “capitalism” in the plural, this ambiguous strategy is not without interest.
The diversity and historicity of capitalism according to Volume One of Capital: Origins, developments, transformations, and differentiations - 2015.
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Marx is not a thinker of the diversity of capitalism. Thus, Volume I of Capital seems to pose the British model (machinery, industrial revolution, endless pursuit of improving labor productivity) as the mature coherent and self-sustaining form that capitalism is able to achieve, a form in which the sharpening of its constituent contradictions can only occur. However, discreetly, Volume I also appears sometimes to be on the path of a reflection on the significant space of variations still open for capitalism and, more radically, upon the “non-British” forms that can characterize its history and its geography. At a time when it is crucial, both epistemologically and politically, to learn to decline the term “capitalism” in the plural, this ambiguous strategy is not without interest.
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