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The Unfinished System of Karl Marx

Critically Reading Capital as a Challenge for our Times

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Editors:
  1. Judith Dellheim

    1. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Frieder Otto Wolf

    1. Institute of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Offers a critical reading to one of the best known critique of capitalism in the twentieth century
  • Considers the modern day relevance of Marxian analysis of capitalism through its application to contemporary issues
  • Brings together scholars of economics, politics, philosophy, sociology and history to offer a thorough analysis from a multidisciplinary perspective

Part of the book series: Luxemburg International Studies in Political Economy (LISPE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. The Challenge of the Incompleteness of the Third Volume of Capital for Theoretical and Political Work Today

    • Judith Dellheim, Frieder Otto Wolf
    Pages 1-30

  3. Taking Up the Challenge of Living Labour A ‘Backwards-Looking Reconstruction’ of Recent Italian Debates on Marx’s Theory of the Capitalist Mode of Production

    • Riccardo Bellofiore, Frieder Otto Wolf
    Pages 31-89

  4. Capitalist Communism: Marx’s Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in Volume III of Capital

    • Fred Moseley
    Pages 91-128

  5. Another Productive and Challenging ‘Incompleteness’ of Capital, Volume III

    • Frieder Otto Wolf
    Pages 129-150

  6. ‘Secular Stagnation’ and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

    • Joachim Bischoff, Stephan Krüger, Christoph Lieber
    Pages 151-185

  7. Profit, Elasticity and Nature

    • Kohei Saito
    Pages 187-217

  8. The Social Constitution of Commodity Fetishism, Money Fetishism and Capital Fetishism

    • Georgios Daremas
    Pages 219-249

  9. Marx’s Critical Notes on the Classical Theory of Interest

    • Jan Toporowski
    Pages 251-263

  10. ‘Joint-Stock Company’ and ‘Share Capital’ as Economic Categories of Critical Political Economy

    • Judith Dellheim
    Pages 265-298

  11. Capital, Volume III—Gaps Seen from South Africa: Marx’s Crisis Theory, Luxemburg’s Capitalist/Non-capitalist Relations and Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism

    • Patrick Bond
    Pages 299-330

  12. Foreshadowing of the Future in the Critical Analysis of the Present

    • Michael Brie
    Pages 331-358

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 359-368
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About this book

This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "systematic presentation" of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'. The text introduces the reader to a key problem´of Marx's largely implicit epistemology, by exploring the systematic character of his exposition and the difference of this kind of 'systematicity' from Hegelian philosophical system construction. The volume contributes to establishing a new understanding of the critique of political economy, as it has been articulated in various debates since the 1960s - especially in France, Germany, and Italy - and as it had already been initiated by Marx and some of his followers, with Rosa Luxemburg in a key role. All the chapters are transdisciplinary in nature, and explore the modern day relevance of Marx's and Luxemburg's theoretical analysis of the dominance of the capitalist mode of production.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany

    Judith Dellheim

  • Institute of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Frieder Otto Wolf

About the editors

Judith Dellheim is a senior research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany. She has worked in the foreign trade of the GDR. Since 1990, she has been working on economies of solidarity, on political parties and movements, and on economic policies. She has been a member of the Federal Board of the PDS in 1995–2003, a free-lance scientific consultant from 2004–2010, and senior researcher at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2011. She is co-author of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy.


Frieder Otto Wolf is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has been a lecturer in philosophy at this institution since 1973, and became Honorary Professor in 2007. He has served as a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and sits on the advisory board of several journals. He has published books and articles on political philosophy, the politics of labor, the politics of sustainability, political epistemology, and metaphilosophy, including as co-author of Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Unfinished System of Karl Marx

  • Book Subtitle: Critically Reading Capital as a Challenge for our Times

  • Editors: Judith Dellheim, Frieder Otto Wolf

  • Series Title: Luxemburg International Studies in Political Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70347-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70346-6Published: 26 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09948-0Published: 02 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70347-3Published: 13 April 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6373

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6381

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 368

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economic History, Economic Policy, Political Sociology, Political Philosophy

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