Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx's Law of Value by Amin, Samir - 2018

Monthly Review Pr, 2018. Paperback. New. 280 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate profit imperatives as opportunities for individual human equality and advancement. But it was the genius of Karl Marx, in his masterwork, Capital, to discover the converse law of surplus value: behind the illusion of the democratic, supply-and-demand marketplace, lies the workplace, where people trying to earn a living are required to work way beyond the time it takes to pay their wages. Leave it to the genius of Samir Amin to advance Marx's theories--adding to them the work of radical economists such as Michal Kalecki, Josef Steindl, Paul Baran, and Paul Sweezy--to show how Marxian theory can be adapted to modern economic conditions. Amin extends Marx's analysis to describe a concept of "imperialist rent" derived from the radically unequal wages paid for the same labor done by people in both the Global… Read More

Monthly Review Pr, 2018. Paperback. New. 280 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

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