Between Capitalism and Community
2021
Michael A. Lebowitz
In 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鈥檚 analysis. In taking this approach, Marx tended to obscure not only the centrality of capital鈥檚 鈥渋mmanent drive鈥� and 鈥渃onstant tendency鈥� to divide the working class but also the political economy of the working class (鈥渟ocial production controlled by social foresight鈥�). In Between Capitalism and Community, Lebowitz demonstrates that capitalism contains within itself elements of a different society, one of community.. ...