Time, Labor, and Social Domination

A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

Paperback, 438 pages

English language

Published July 13, 1996 by Cambridge University Press.

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978-0-521-56540-0
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Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of …

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En mycket givande och spännande tolkning och intervention. Samtidigt kan hans ständiga påstående om nyskapandehet ifrågasättas, i synnerhet med utgångspunkt i den värdekritiska traditionen. Dock framstår i synnerhet fokuset på kapitalets förmåga att forma medvetande som mycket intressant och kritiken av Hegel, nationalekonomin, klassisk Marxism och Frankfurtskolan var mycket givande.

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