Simon Gros

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This book provides a critical analysis of the Grundrisse as a crucial stage in the development of Marx’s critique of political economy. Stressing both the achievements and limitations of this much-debated text, and drawing upon recent philological advances, this volume attempts to re-read Marx’s 1857-58 manuscripts against the background of Capital, as a ‘laboratory’ in which Marx first began to clarify central elements of his mature problematic.

With chapters by an international range of authors from different traditions of interpretation, including the International Symposium on Marxian Theory, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of key themes and concepts in the Grundrisse, such as method, dialectics and abstraction; abstract labour, value, money and capital; technology, the ‘general intellect’ and revolutionary subjectivity, surplus-value, competition, crisis; and society, gender, ecology and pre-capitalist forms.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction: in Marx’s Laboratory

PART ONE: ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIMITS OF THE GRUNDRISSE
1. The Grundrisse after Capital, or how to Re-read Marx Backwards by Riccardo Bellofiore
2. Method: from the Grundrisse to Capital by Juan Iñigo Carrera
3. The 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? by Roberto Fineschi

PART TWO: ABSTRACT LABOUR, VALUE AND MONEY
4. The Practical Truth of Abstract Labour by Christopher J. Arthur
5. Unavoidable Crises: Reflections on Backhaus and the Development of Marx’s Value-Form Theory in the Grundrisse by Patrick Murray

PART THREE: THE CONCEPT OF CAPITAL
6. The Transformation of Money into Capital by Martha Campbell
7. The Concept of Capital in the Grundrisse by Howard Engelskirchen

PART FOUR: TECHNOLOGY, DOMINATION, EMANCIPATION
8. The ‘Fragment on Machines’: A Marxian Misconception in the Grundrisse and its Overcoming in Capital by Michael Heinrich
9. The ‘General Intellect’ in the Grundrisse and Beyond by Tony Smith
10. The System of Machinery and Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital by Guido Starosta
11. From the Grundrisse to Capital and Beyond: Then and Now by George Caffentzis

PART FIVE: COMPETITION, CYCLES AND CRISIS
12. The Whole and the Parts: The Early Development of Marx’s Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in the Grundrisse by Fred Moseley
13. Marx’s Grundrisse and the Monetary Business-Cycle by Jan Toporowski
14. Crisis and the Rate of Profit in Marx’s Laboratory by Peter D. Thomas and Geert Reuten

PART SIX: SOCIETY AND HISTORY IN THE GRUNDRISSE
15. Between Pre-Capitalist Forms and Capitalism: The Problem of Society in the Grundrisse (Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy) by Luca Basso
16. Second Nature: Gender in Marx’s Grundrisse by Amy E. Wendling
17. Uneven Developments: From the Grundrisse to Capital by Joel Wainwright
18. Pre-Capitalistic Forms of Production and Primitive Accumulation. Marx’s Historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital by Massimilano Tomba

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