{"product_id":"the-automatic-fetish-the-law-of-value-in-marxs-capital-9781804294802","title":"The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy you should read all three volumes of Marx's \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e together\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eAutomatic Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e recreates Marx's analysis of capital, step-by-step, through the material compiled posthumously as \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, Volume three. Identifying the critique of value as the central through-line of the analysis, Best elaborates Marx's theory of value as a theory of movement through which the capital-machine generates social forms of appearance that are the inversions of its inner operating mechanisms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharacterizing capital's movement and the dynamic production of social form as a 'perceptual physics, ' Best demonstrates the consistency and the coherency with which Marx's theory of value orients all trajectories of analysis in \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e 3, as well as providing the conceptual bridge between Volumes on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book illustrates the way in which capital's development to this day is as much as a story of the continuity of capital's inner dynamics as it is a story of ongoing transformation of capital's surface-forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBest develops, through Marx's critique, an analysis of money, credit, crisis, and the derivatives of profit-interest and ground-rent, that takes the reader from their emergence as capitalist forms to their current expressions. Neither a back-to-basics nor newfangled reconstruction, \u003ci\u003eThe Automatic Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e eschews novelty to show why, once again, Marx deserves to be read carefully.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804294802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Beverley Best","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43838733418677,"sku":"9781804294802","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a38c0c0c-2d80-453b-8126-6719a638b4da.jpg?v=1712028996","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-automatic-fetish-the-law-of-value-in-marxs-capital-9781804294802","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}