The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond

Lorenzo Fusaro; Leinad Johan Alcalá Sandoval

doi:10.5771/9781793638243

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This edited collection engages with Marx’s General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, examining the relevance and actuality of Marx’s propositions for the analysis of contemporary capitalism in Latin America and beyond. The contributors offer an original and updated interpretation of Marx while also examining important topics in political economy. The contributors bring critical insights into scholarly debates on imperialism, exploitation, labor, and development.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3823-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3824-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 264
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
1. One Hundred Years On: “Dialectical Inversion” and Multiple Crises No access
2. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation No access
3. The Contribution of the Present Volume No access
4. Note No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Capital: A Book Organized into Different Levels of Abstraction No access
  2. 1. Accumulation in the Development of the Systematic Structure of Capital No access
    2. Brief Methodological Evaluation of Part 7 No access
  3. 1. Attraction of Labour-Power No access
    2. Repulsion of the Labour-Power and Formation of Global Social Capital No access
    3. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population and Its Forms of Existence: Formulation of the GLCA No access
    4. Illustration of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Premises No access
  2. For a Theory of Crepuscular Capitalism No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
  5. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Labour-Shortage Business Cycles in the Marxist Literature No access
  2. Labor-Shortage Business Cycles in Chapter 25 of Capital? No access
  3. The Empirical Case for a Theory of Labor-Shortage Business Cycles No access
  4. A Rereading of Section 4 of Chapter 25 Incorporating Time Frames No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
4. 1. Introduction No access
  2. General Determinations of Wages in a Marxist Perspective No access
  3. 1. Labor Markets No access
    2. Capital Accumulation and the Industrial Reserve Army No access
  4. 1. Fluctuating form of the IRA, Industrial Cycles, and Market Wages No access
    2. Stagnant and Latent Forms of the IRA, Long Waves of Accumulation, Average Wages, and Value of Labor-Power No access
  5. Synthetical Final Considerations No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Labor Precariousness from the Marxist Perspective No access
  3. Abstract Domination and Accumulation No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Introduction: Marx’s Error? No access
  2. The Limitations of Dependency Theory and Political Marxism No access
  3. Marx’s General Law, Underdevelopment, and Latin America No access
  4. 1. Underdevelopment and Dependency No access
    2. Forms of State No access
    3. Class Struggle No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Unfree Labor in Italian Agriculture No access
  3. The Global Reserve Army of Labour, Imperialism, and Unfree Labor No access
  4. Border Imperialism in the Mediterranean No access
  5. Reserve Workers in Libya No access
  6. Reserve Workers in Italy’s Fields No access
  7. The Resistance of Immigrant Workers No access
  8. Conclusion No access
  9. Notes No access
  10. Bibliography No access
  11. Audio and Video Materials No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Context of the Formulation of Marxist Dependency Theory No access
  3. Super-exploitation in Marx’s Theory No access
  4. Super-exploitation and Reproduction of Workforce in Marini No access
  5. The Historical Scope of the Marini Model No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
4. 1. The Crisis of Global Capitalism No access
  2. Digitalization, the Global Precariat, and Surplus Humanity No access
  3. From Lupenproletariat to Lumpenprecariat No access
  4. Conclusion: The Struggle against Global Police State No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
5. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. The Labor Market and the IRA No access
    2. The IRA and Marx’s General Law of Capitalist Accumulation No access
    3. Today’s IRA Subpopulations No access
  3. 1. The Industrial Reserve Army and National Accounts No access
    2. The Industrial Reserve Army in Mexico No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. Bibliography No access
6. 1. 1. Labor-power and Reproduction of Capital No access
    2. 1. First Stage (L-M) No access
      2. Second Stage (M-C) No access
      3. Third Stage (C...H...L) No access
  2. 1. Determination of the Magnitude of Unpaid Housework No access
    2. Distribution of Unpaid Housework No access
  3. 1. 1. Super-exploitation of Labor and Its Immediate Effects ([1], [2], and [3]) No access
      2. Dynamics of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation ([4], [5], and [6]) No access
      3. Accumulation of Capital and Unpaid Housework ([7] and [8]) No access
  4. 1. Gender Gap in the Distribution of Unpaid Housework in Mexico No access
  5. Concluding Remarks No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 249 - 260
1. About the Editors No access
2. About the Contributors No access