Reading CapitalREADING CAPITAL presents Louis Althusser's systematic theory of a Marxism cleansed of all idealist and Hegelian notions. No reader interested in modern Marxism can afford to bypass this book. "One reads his passionate study with attention, even with excitement". Eric Hobsbawm, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. |
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... duction of a new answer without a question , and simultaneously the pro- duction of a new latent question contained by default in this new answer . Through the lacunary terms of its new answer political economy produced a new question ...
... duction of a new answer without a question , and simultaneously the pro- duction of a new latent question contained by default in this new answer . Through the lacunary terms of its new answer political economy produced a new question ...
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... duction itself . This discovery plays an essential part in the theory of the realization of value , in the process of capitalist accumulation , and in all the laws that flow from it . This point is the object of an interminable polemic ...
... duction itself . This discovery plays an essential part in the theory of the realization of value , in the process of capitalist accumulation , and in all the laws that flow from it . This point is the object of an interminable polemic ...
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... duction process an isolated act enclosed in the determinations of the pre- ceding and the succeeding . An isolated act , insofar as its only connexions with the other acts of production are supported by the structure of linear temporal ...
... duction process an isolated act enclosed in the determinations of the pre- ceding and the succeeding . An isolated act , insofar as its only connexions with the other acts of production are supported by the structure of linear temporal ...
Contents
Foreword to the Italian Edition | 7 |
Introduction | 73 |
Marx and his Discoveries | 79 |
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