Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital 9781839763502, 9781839763465, 1839763493, 9781839763496

A new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalism Despite insoluble contradictions, inte

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Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
 9781839763502, 9781839763465, 1839763493, 9781839763496

Table of contents :
A Note on Translations and References

Foreword by Michael Heinrich

Introduction

PART I: CONDITIONS

1. Conceptualising Power and Capital

2. Power and Marxism

3. The Social Ontology of Economic Power

4. The Human Corporeal Organisation

5. Metabolic Domination

PART II: RELATIONS

6. Transcendental Class Domination

7. Capital and Difference

8. The Universal Power of Value

9. Value, Class, and Competition

PART III: DYNAMICS

10. The Despotism of Subsumption

11. The Capitalist Reconfiguration of Nature

12. Logistical Power

13. Surplus Populations and Crisis

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgements

Appendix: Cited Volumes of Marx and Engels’s Collected Works

Index

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