Between Capitalism and Community
Connects the Marxist construct of capitalism to systems of communityIn this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning, Beyond Capital.Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on…
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Connects the Marxist construct of capitalism to systems of communityIn this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning, Beyond Capital.Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endless accumulation of capital, its causes and consequences that are central to Marx's analysis. In taking this approach, Marx tended to obscure not only the centrality of capital's "immanent drive" and "constant tendency" to divide the working class but also the political economy of the working class ("social production controlled by social foresight"). In Between Capitalism and Community, Lebowitz demonstrates that capitalism contains within itself elements of a different society, one of community.Whereas Marx's intellectual construct of capitalism treats it as an organic system that