As social movements waned in the late 70s, the study of Marx seemed to take on a life of its own. Structuralist, post-structuralist, deconstructed Marxes bloomed in journals and seminar rooms across the US and Europe. These Marxes and their interpreters struggled to interpret the world, and sometimes to interpret Marx himself, losing sight at times of his dictum that the challenge is not to interpret the world but to change it. In 1979, Harry Cleaver tossed an incendiary device called Reading Capital Politically into ...
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As social movements waned in the late 70s, the study of Marx seemed to take on a life of its own. Structuralist, post-structuralist, deconstructed Marxes bloomed in journals and seminar rooms across the US and Europe. These Marxes and their interpreters struggled to interpret the world, and sometimes to interpret Marx himself, losing sight at times of his dictum that the challenge is not to interpret the world but to change it. In 1979, Harry Cleaver tossed an incendiary device called Reading Capital Politically into those seminar rooms. Through a close reading of the first chapter, he shows that Das Kapital was written for the workers, not for academics, and that we need to expand our idea of workers to include housewives, students, the unemployed, and other non-waged workers. Reading Capital Politically provides a theoretical and historical bridge between struggles in Europe in the 60s and 70s and, particularly, the Autonomia of Italy to the Zapatistas of the 90s. His introduction provides a brilliant and succinct overview of working class struggles in the century since Capital was published. Cleaver adds a new preface to the AK Press/Anti-Thesis edition.
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Very good in Good jacket. Jacket is rubbed and worn, particularly along edges but not affecting legibility of text. Cover is in great condition. Spine is shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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VG-(ex-library w/ textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings, etc. edge-wear to covers. dustjacket taped to cover edges, ID to lower spine; plastic scuffed. ) Red boards w/ gilt spine printing. 209 pgs. black & red dustjacket w/ reading printing; protective plastic. From a college library. Pages clean. "...Cleaver attempts to show that Marx can be both understood and applied directly and that Marx's categories still express the fundamental character of social relations...Marx can still provide guides to understanding and opposing catpitalism in both its free enterprise and its socialist guises."--Publisher.