Re-reading MarxNew Perspectives after the Critical Edition

Edited by

Riccardo Bellofiore

and

Roberto Fineschi

palgrevemacmilian

Contents

List of Tables vii

Acknowledgements viii

Notes on the Contributors ix

1 Introduction 1Riccardo Bellofiore and Roberto Fineschi

2 New Perspectives Opened by the Publicationof Marx's Manuscripts of Capital, Vol. II 17RolfHecker

3 Karl Marx's Original Manuscripts in theMarx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA):Another View on Capital 27Regina Roth

4 Dialectic of the Commodity and Its Exposition:The German Debate in the 1970s - A Personal Survey 50Roberto Fineschi

5 Reconstruction or Deconstruction? MethodologicalControversies about Value and Capital, and NewInsights from the Critical Edition 71Michael Heinrich

6 The Limits and Uncertainties of Historical Materialism:an Appraisal based on the Text of Grundrisse(Notebooks III, IV and V) 99Roberto Finelli

7 The Chapters on Machinery in the 1861-63 Manuscripts 112Tony Smith

8 The Development of Marx's Theory of the Distribution ofSurplus-Value in the Manuscripts of 1861-63 128Fred Moseley

9 The Possessive Spirit of Capital: Subsumption/Inversion/Contradiction 148Christopher ]. Arthur

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10 The Place of 'The Results of the Immediate ProductionProcess' in Capital 163Patrick Murray

11 A Ghost Turning into a Vampire: The Concept ofCapital and Living Labour 178Riccardo Bellofiore

12 From History of Capital to History in Capital 195Massimiliano Tomba

13 Marx's General Rate of Profit Transformation: Methodologicaland Theoretical Obstacles - an Appraisal based on the 1864-65Manuscript of Das Kapital III 211Geert Reuten

Name Index 231

Subject Index 233