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Title: Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx, Martin Nicolaus, Martin Nickolaus ISBN: 0-14-044575-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: You're supposed to get down? Damn, that's already low.
Comment: I own the Ben Fowkes translation of this book (generally reputed to be Marx's most complete theoretical statement, and none too early); but trying to find it on Amazon makes me wonder if I should. The Penguin edition of this book is widely available, the Vintage formerly so, the German Dietz-Verlag version on Amazon.de, and the International Publishers version (directly from "critical" edition MEGA) not at all. How much does the "approved" translation cost? $50.00 for two hardback volumes. Is this something people might want to buy in lieu of an inexpensively produced paperback? Yeah. Is this the most important book ever written? Marx certainly wouldn't have you think that. But is this particular version worth owning? Sure -- don't expect to find this at your local library.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tough but Worthwhile
Comment: A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, drafted during the winter of 1857-8, exploring the themes and theses that dominate his later writings, including Marx's own version of Hegel's dialectics, and thoughts on alientation. While not as sophisticatedp--or lengthy--as Das Kapital, it remains a "must read" for anyone interested developing a sophisticated understanding of Marxist philosophy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Critical Reading
Comment: Unlike many other works, the Grundrisse exposes in more obvious ways Marx's dialectical thought. The Introduction should really be read as a great antidote to the 1859 Preface to a Critique of Political Economy, which gave us the base-superstructure analogy. The weakest link in Marx's though may very well be found there. The Grundrisse Introduction starts from the point of view of class struggle, whereas there is no place for the class struggle as the driving force in the base-superstructure schema.
Also, Grundrisse starts in a different place from Capital. There is a reason for this, and a good discussion of this can be found in the writing of Raya Dunayevskaya and a counter discussion can be found in Roman Rosdolsky. The choice to eventually shelve the organization of the Grundrisse for the organization of Capital flows in part from the changes in the intervening years, most notably the U.S. Civil War.
Real life constantly shaped Marx's thinking, hardly fitting the representation we commonly get of him from ideologues and capital's priests (economists). As a result, Grundrisse also has serious limitations in its understanding of the logic of capital. Basing the entire understanding of Marxism and capital on Grundrisse leads to the kind of mistakes made by Italian Autononmist Marxism, esp. Antonio Negri, who find themselves engaged in a very subjectivist understanding of capitalism. A useful, but sympathetic, antidote can be found in Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway's writings.
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Title: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics) by Karl Marx, Ben Fowkes, J. M. Cohen ISBN: 0140445684 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The German Ideology: Including Thesis on Feuerbach (Great Books in Philosophy) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx ISBN: 1573922587 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Marx Beyond Marx by Antonio Negri ISBN: 093675625X Publisher: Autonomedia Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Poverty of Philosophy (Great Books in Philosophy) by Karl Marx, H. Quelch, Karl Mark ISBN: 0879759771 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto (Great Books in Philosophy Series) by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Immanuel Kant, Martin Milligan ISBN: 087975446X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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