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Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State

[1] 书籍信息

Raju J Das, Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State, Routledge, June 2022.

[2] 作者简介

Raju J Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class theory, the capitalist state, and international development. His recent books include Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World. He is associated with a number of scholarly journals: Dialectical Anthropology; Race, Class and Corporate Power; Critical Sociology; Human Geography; and Science and Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis.

[3] 内容简介

Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State examines the capitalist state in the abstract, and as it exists in advanced capitalism and peripheral capitalism, illustrating the ideas with evidence from the North and the South.

The volume unpacks the capitalist state’s functions in relation to commodity relations, private property, and the crisis-ridden production of (surplus) value as a part of the capital circuit (M-C-M′). It also examines state’s political and geographical forms. It argues that no matter how autonomous it is, the state cannot meet the pressing needs of the masses significantly and sustainably. This is not because of so-called capitalist constraints, but because the state is inherently capitalist. Each chapter begins with Capital volume 1. And each chapter ends with theoretical/practical implications of the ideas which taken together counter existing state theory’s focus on state autonomy and reforms and point to the necessity for the masses to establish a new transitional democratic state. But the book goes ‘beyond’ Marx too, as it deploys the combined Marxism of 19th and 20th centuries.

Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State will interest scholars researching state-society/economy relations. It is suitable for university students as well as established scholars in sociology, political science, heterodox economics, human geography, and international development.

[4] 书籍目录

1.  Introduction

2. A critical review of Marxist state theory post Marx

3. The state and class relations

4. The state’s internal relation with capitalism and capitalists

5. The state, capitalist commodity relations, and labour power

6. The state and capitalist property relations

7. The state, and capitalist production, exploitation, accumulation, and crisis

8. The state, and the agency of capitalists and state actors

9. The state and the agency of the working class

10. State Forms: Geographic and bureaucratic

11. Capitalism, imperialism, and the state in the global periphery

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https://www.routledge.com/Marxs-Capital-Capitalism-and-Limits-to-the-State-Theoretical-Considerations/Das/p/book/9780815347958

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