TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,William Clare
TI  - Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital 
SN  - 9780691180816
AV  - HB501.M37 
U1  - 335.412 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Capital
KW  - Charles Fourier
KW  - Dante
KW  - G. A. Cohen
KW  - Inferno
KW  - Karl Marx
KW  - Owenism
KW  - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
KW  - Robert Owen
KW  - Saint-Simonians
KW  - akrasia
KW  - anarchy
KW  - association
KW  - capital accumulation
KW  - capitalism
KW  - capitalist exploitation
KW  - capitalist mode of production
KW  - collective force
KW  - commerce
KW  - domination
KW  - expropriation
KW  - force
KW  - fraud
KW  - labor power
KW  - labor
KW  - market society
KW  - money
KW  - overwork
KW  - political economy
KW  - political theory
KW  - primitive accumulation
KW  - republicanism
KW  - separatism
KW  - social Hell
KW  - socialism
KW  - surplus labor
KW  - treachery
KW  - wages
KW  - workers' movement
KW  - working class
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on References and Translations --; 1. Introduction: Rereading Capital --; 2. Taenarus: The Road to Hell --; 3. Styx: The Anarchy of the Market --; 4. Dis: Capitalist Exploitation as Force Contrary to Nature --; 5. Malebolge: The Capitalist Mode of Production as Fraud --; 6. Cocytus: Treachery and the Necessity of Expropriation --; 7. Conclusion: Purgatory, or the Social Republic --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers’ movement. Understood in this light, Capital emerges as a profound work of political theory. Placing Marx against the background of nineteenth-century socialism, Roberts shows how Capital was ingeniously modeled on Dante’s Inferno, and how Marx, playing the role of Virgil for the proletariat, introduced partisans of workers’ emancipation to the secret depths of the modern “social Hell.” In this manner, Marx revised republican ideas of freedom in response to the rise of capitalism.Combining research on Marx’s interlocutors, textual scholarship, and forays into recent debates, Roberts traces the continuities linking Marx’s theory of capitalism to the tradition of republican political thought. He immerses the reader in socialist debates about the nature of commerce, the experience of labor, the power of bosses and managers, and the possibilities of political organization. Roberts rescues those debates from the past, and shows how they speak to ever-renewed concerns about political life in today’s world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883707?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400883707
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400883707/original
ER  -