{"product_id":"9781804294802","title":"The Automatic Fetish","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy you should read all three volumes of Marx's \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e together\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eAutomatic Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e recreates Marx's analysis of capital, step-by-step, through the material compiled posthumously as \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, Volume three. Identifying the critique of value as the central through-line of the analysis, Best elaborates Marx's theory of value as a theory of movement through which the capital-machine generates social forms of appearance that are the inversions of its inner operating mechanisms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharacterizing capital’s movement and the dynamic production of social form as a 'perceptual physics,' Best demonstrates the consistency and the coherency with which Marx's theory of value orients all trajectories of analysis in \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e 3, as well as providing the conceptual bridge between Volumes on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book illustrates the way in which capital’s development to this day is as much as a story of the continuity of capital's inner dynamics as it is a story of ongoing transformation of capital's surface-forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest develops, through Marx's critique, an analysis of money, credit, crisis, and the derivatives of profit-interest and ground-rent, that takes the reader from their emergence as capitalist forms to their current expressions. Neither a back-to-basics nor newfangled reconstruction, \u003ci\u003eThe Automatic Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e eschews novelty to show why, once again, Marx deserves to be read carefully.","brand":"Beverley Best","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48675602858196,"sku":"9781804294802","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_80dd4bbc-026f-4215-bcaf-59622a782a2d.jpg?v=1789530908","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781804294802","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}