"This book persistently challenges the residual orthodoxies of first-generation neo-Marxism and its fellow travelers in order to lay the foundations of a second-generation neo-Marxist project that also seeks a path beyond Marx's and Marxism's polarization. It is not the young or the old Marx, but the young and old Marx. It is not historical materialism or the philosophy of praxis, but rather historical materialism plus the philosophy of praxis. Essentially, this book seeks unification by reversing the epistemological break fallacy thus bringing in the early works that are demonstrated to be integral to a holistic reading of Marx's episteme, while simultaneously shattering the myth of a seamless continuity in account between the Communist Manifesto and Capital Vol. 1 that opens up the need to rethink the prognosis and unite it with praxis"--
Author(s): David Neilson
Series: Social Welfare Policies and Programs - Patterms, Implications and Prospects
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 238
City: New York
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Introduction: The Terms of the Struggle
Introduction
The Current Crisis of Marxism and the Spectre of Althusser
Conclusion - Outlining the Book
Chapter 2
Re-Examining Marx’s Project for the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Althusser’s Shadow
Introduction
Althusser’s Political and Intellectual Conjuncture
Althusser Opens up Neo-Marxism
Epistemic Regression
Bringing Subjectivity Back In and Reading Marx Again
Concluding Discussion
Chapter 3
In Search of Marx’s ‘Way of Knowing’
Introduction
General Introduction to the Grundrisse
Application Across Marx’s Texts of His Method as Incompletely Defined by the Introduction
Method in Capital Vol. 1
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: Method in the Conjuncture
The Communist Manifesto: Method and Class
The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts: Method and Human Nature
Concluding Discussion
Chapter 4
Removing the Suffocating Spectre of Althusser and Resuscitating Young Marx
Introduction
The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
Section Summary
Praxis: From Thesis Eleven to the Architect’s Tale and Socialism
Section Summary
The Descent from Optimism to Pessimism: Alienation to Commodity Fetishism
Concluding Discussion: Bridge to the Communist Manifesto
Chapter 5
The Communist Manifesto
Introduction
The Pivotal Hub of Marx’s Episteme
From Philosophy to the Sociological Foundations of Modern Class Theory
The Class Development Prognosis of the Communist Manifesto
Counter-Messages in and Beyond the Communist Manifesto
Problems Brought over from the Early Work
Counter-Messages in the Communist Manifesto
Problems with the Communist Manifesto’s Political Economy
Concluding Discussion
Chapter 6
Capital Vol. 1
Introduction
Capital’s Method of Inquiry Revisited
Capitalism’s ‘Laws of Motion’
The Historical Ascendancy of Capitalist Exploitation
The Two Stages of Marx’s Schematic History of the Capitalist Mode of Production
Formal Subordination, Exploitation, Absolute Surplus Value and Non-Industrial Capitalist Production
Real Subordination, Relative Surplus Value and the Industrial Labour Process
Relative Surplus Population and Capitalism’s Endgame
Consequences of Capital’s Political Economy Narrative for the Communist Manifesto’s Class-for-Itself Prognosis
Concluding Discussion
Chapter 7
From Capital Vol. 1 to Contemporary Capitalism: Opening up a Pandora’s Box
Introduction
From Capital to Capitalism’s Uneven Development
From Uneven Development to Models of Development
From the Fordist Model of Development to the Neoliberal Model of Development
Towards the Neoliberal Model of Uneven Development
Class Implications: Dimensions of the Competitively Divided Heterogeneity of the Everyday Experience of the World’s Labouring Population
Uneven Development, Class Heterogeneity and International Contests
Intersectionality Uneven Development and Regressive Nationalism
Concluding Discussion
Chapter 8
Conclusion - Socialism in the Twenty-First Century: From Praxis to Regulation
Introduction
From Marx’s Socialism to Socialist Regulation
Durkheim to Lipietz via Althusser
Breaking Free of the Constraints of the French Regulation School
Marx’s Socialism
Crisis of the Neoliberal Model of Development
Consciously Sketching a Democratic Cosmopolitan Socialist Model of Development
Class Struggle and the Knowledge Proletariat
Conclusion
References
Author’s Contact Information
Index
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