Introduction -- Value as embodied labor -- Value as a social relation -- Exploitation and surplus value -- Circuit of capital -- Commodity money -- Capital and money -- Credit, crises and capital -- Competition among capitals -- Fixed capital and circulation -- Accumulation and crises -- First crisis of the twenty-first century
Summary
In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Karl Marx anticipated this type of financial collapse, arguing that it was derivative from the 'fetishism of commodities' inherent in the capitalist mode of production. This book substantiates the foregoing claim by a journey from Marx's analysis of commodities to the capitalist crisis of the twenty-first century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-186) and index
