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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-16 21:05:15.
(Language: English)
If you want to understand what's taking place in the world today, you could do worse than to begin with Karl Marx's magnum opus. According to Marx, all the economic relations obtaining between people are species of the value relation. For this reason he begins his critique of political economy with an examination of the phenomenon of value. He finds this phenomenon to be composed of contradictory elements, which gives rise to the necessity for money in addition to commodity. Each of the subsequent relationships he investigates is a species of the value relation: wages are the value of labor-power, surplus-value is an increment of value over that paid out in wages, capital is a value relation between capitalist and worker, profit and rent are portions of surplus-value, etc. This book provides you with the anatomy of production and offers the key to the entirety of the capitalist economy. However, it is more than a work of political economy. By unveiling the secrets at work in the production and reproduction of our modern way of life, it is an unparalleled product of human self-consciousness. It is the starting place for reflection upon the contemporary era - and the pathway to transcending it.
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