Global Marx coheres a collective assessment of Marx's account of capital's domination, through his critique of disciplinary languages, investigation of political structures and analysis of specific political spaces within the world market. His discourse appears here as global not only because global is the geography of the world market but also because Marx redefined the relationships between the spaces on which capital exerts its command. Global Marx proves that Marx's texts do not identify any global working class, nor a centre of power to be conquered, but show that – within and against the world market – there is a social movement that is irreducible to any identity or to a single space from whose perspective one can write a universal history of class struggle.
Contributors are: Luca Basso, Michele Basso, Matteo Battistini, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Michele Cento, Luca Cobbe, Isabella Consolati, Niccolò Cuppini, Roberta Ferrari, Michele Filippini, Giorgio Grappi, Maurizio Merlo, Mario Piccinini, Fabio Raimondi, Maurizio Ricciardi, Paola Rudan, and Federico Tomasello.
Publication date: October 5, 2023
Preface
Abbreviation
Notes on Contributors
part 1
Disciplines and Structures: Time, History, Mutations
1 On Possession and Property Marx, Gans and the Law
Michele Basso
2 Breaking the Chain of Time Marx and the French Historians
Isabella Consolati
3 The Social Object Marx, the Economists, the Mercantile Society
Maurizio Merlo
4 The Artificial Nature and the Genetic History of Capital Marx and the Modern Theory of Colonisation
Paola Rudan
5 The Feminine Ferment Marx and the Critique of Patriarchy
Eleonora Cappuccilli and Roberta Ferrari
6 The City as a Time-Machine Marx and Urban Transformations
Niccolò Cuppini
7 Marx Technology and Anthropology
Fabio Raimondi
part 2
Spaces and World: States, Revolutions, Social Movement
8 Germany as an Anachronism Marx, Social Science and the State
Maurizio Ricciardi
9 In the Anarchic State of Capital Marx and the Suspended History of Latin America
Michele Cento
10 The Colonial Lever and the Social Movement in General Marx and Ireland
Luca Cobbe
11 The French Revolutions and the Future of Politics Marx and France
Federico Tomasello
12 The Nation within Capital’s Political Relations Marx and Italy
Michele Filippini
13 From the Commune to Communism? Marx and Russia
Luca Basso
14 ‘A Sea of Revolution’ Marx, India and China
Giorgio Grappi
15 Between Slavery and Free Labour Marx, the American Civil War and Emancipation as a Global Issue
Matteo Battistini
16 England as the Metropolis of Capital Marx, the International and the Working Class
Mario Piccinini
Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
References
Index
