A New Introduction to Karl Marx

New Materialism, Critique of Political Economy, and the Concept of Metabolism

von Ryuji Sasaki

215 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book provides a concise overview of Marx’s philosophy and political economy, tracing various changes of his theoretical views over time through his practical and theoretical engagements with contradictions of capitalism from the unique perspective of Japanese Marxism. While it offers an objective introduction to Marx’s critique of capitalism, Sasaki uniquely pays particular attention to the concept of “metabolism,” whose disruption under the capitalist mode of production causes exhaustion of labour-power as well as natural resources. Sasaki reconstructs Marx as a revolutionary thinker, whose devoted his entire life for the sake of establishing a more free and equal society beyond capitalism. Sasaki’s book shows that Marx’s passion for the socialist revolution in his last years is recorded in his late excerpt notebooks that become available through the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.

• Reihe: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
• ISBN: 9783030529529
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2022
• Genre: Politikwissenschaft/Politische Theorien, Ideengeschichte
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Übersetzung: Michael Schauerte