In Marx's Laboratory: Critical Interpretations Of The Grundrisse

Riccardo Bellofiore is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is the author and editor of many books, including Re-reading Marx. New Perspectives after the Critical Edition (2009). He is a member of the International Symposium on Marxian Theory.Guido Starosta is Lecturer of the History of Economic Thought at the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. He has published many articles on value-theory, method and subjectivity in the Marxian critique of political economy. He is an editor of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.Peter D Thomas is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London. He is the author of The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Haymarket, 2010) and an editor of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.

• PART ONE: ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIMITS OF THE GRUNDRISSEThe Grundrisse after Capital, or how to Re-read Marx Backwards, Riccardo BellofioreMethod: from the Grundrisse to Capital, Juan Iñigo CarreraThe Four Levels of Abstraction of Marx’s Concept of 'Capital'. Or, Can We Consider the Grundrisse the Most Advanced Version of Marx’s Concept of Capital?, Roberto Fineschi PART TWO: ABSTRACT LABOUR, VALUE AND MONEYThe Practical Truth of Abstract Labour, Christopher J. Arthur Unavoidable Crises: Reflections on Backhaus and the Development of Marx’s Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse, Patrick Murray PART THREE: THE CONCEPT OF CAPITALThe Transformation of Money into Capital, Martha Campbell The Concept of Capital in the Grundrisse, Howard Engelskirchen PART FOUR: TECHNOLOGY, DOMINATION, EMANCIPATIONThe ‘Fragment on Machines’: A Marxian Misconception in the Grundrisse and its Overcoming in Capital, Michael HeinrichThe 'General Intellect' in the Grundrisse and Beyond, Tony Smith The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital, Guido Starosta From the Grundrisse to Capital and Beyond: Then and Now, George Caffentzis PART FIVE: COMPETITION, CYCLES AND CRISISThe Whole and the Parts: The Early Development of Marx’s Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in the Grundrisse, Fred MoseleyMarx's Grundrisse and the Monetary Business-Cycle, Jan ToporowskiCrisis and the Rate of Profit in Marx’s Laboratory, Peter D. Thomas and Geert ReutenPART SIX: SOCIETY AND HISTORY IN THE GRUNDRISSEBetween Pre-Capitalist Forms and Capitalism: The Problem of Society in the Grundrisse (Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy), Luca BassoSecond Nature: Gender in Marx’s Grundrisse, Amy E. Wendling Uneven Developments: From the Grundrisse to Capital, Joel WainwrightPre-Capitalistic Forms of Production and Primitive Accumulation. Marx's Historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital, Massimilano Tomba ReferencesIndex