Capitalism

Johan Fornäs is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm and Editor of Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. His books include Cultural Theory and Late Modernity (1995), In Garageland (1995), Digital Borderlands (2002), Consuming Media (2007) and Signifying Europe (2011).

• 1. Introduction 2. Method 3. Commodity and Money 4. From Money to Capital 5. Surplus 6. Production 7. Accumulation 8. Primitive Accumulation 9. Circulation of Capital 10. Reproduction of the Total Capital 11. The Rate of Profit 12. Crises 13. Trade, Banks and Land 14. Mystifying Realities 15. Futures. Postscript. References

"In this companion to Marx’s three volumes of Capital the author Johan Fornas traces closely the original text thereby producing an "easy to follow" and accessible discussion of what is arguably still the most important and comprehensive analysis of modern industrial capitalism. For those unfamiliar with Marx’s three volume oeuvre Das Kapital this book is an excellent ‘reader’s digest’ version that takes the reader from the first chapter of the first volume – on the commodity – to the final part of Capital III, the trinity formula and the illusion created by competition."— Detlev Zwick, Schulich School of Business