Subversive thought is none other than the cunning of reason when confronted with a social reality in which the poor and miserable are required to sustain the illusion of fictitious wealth. Yet, this subsidy is absolutely necessary in existing society, to prevent its implosion. The critique of political economy is a thoroughly subversive business.
It rejects the appearance of economic reality as a natural thing, argues that economy has not independent existence, expounds economy as political economy, and rejects as conformist rebellion those anti-capitalist perspectives that derive their rationality from the existing conceptuality of society.
Subversion focuses on human conditions. Its critical subject is society unaware of itself. This book develops Marx's critique of political economy as negative theory of society. It does not conform to the patterns of the world and demands that society rids itself of all the muck of ages and founds itself anew.
Review: Bonefeld's most accomplished work to date, and certainly represents a definitive statement on critique, negative dialectics, and Open Marxism ... a book which sets out his own unique vision of Marxism as Critical Theory that moves in reflexive and dialectical engagement with its definite subject matter: political economy and the inherently antagonistic social constitution of capital ...
Critical Theory at its intelligent, robust and challenging best-argumentation this book delivers from cover to cover. -- Greig Charnock Antipode Exactly the kind of book we need ... We need a conceptual comprehension that sharpens and focuses our experience. We do not live in a world in which the abolition of capitalism seems imminent.
In such conditions, especially when a thinker breaks through old theoretical integuments, the obligation is towards the very critique and critical theory that animates this book. -- Chris Wright Mute Compelling and persuasively argued account of the tasks with which critical theory is faced today, and of the failure of the larger part of Marxist theory to date adequately to address those tasks ...
The book represents what is perhaps the most sustained and comprehensive exposition of the critique of political economy from its at times incipient formulation within Marx's oeuvre. -- Josh Robinson Marx and Philosophy Review of Books A very rewarding read. It brings together a large array of ideas and provides devastating critiques of both capitalism and some of its Marxist critics.
The book will no doubt appeal to those most associated with left communist ideas. That said, in a period where criticisms of capitalism have taken on no more than a dismal rejection of it as an unfair system ran by elites and corporations, I feel it is a must read for any person who considers themselves Marxist or anti-capitalist.
Werner Bonefeld restates the fundamentals of the critique of political economy and provides us with a highly engaging and important piece of work. -- Liam Conway The Project: A Socialist Journal Is Marx is an economic thinker? Bonefeld's lucid and original reading answers this question in the affirmative ...
In an age when much of what passes as communist thought and practice is either the ossified dogmas of the past, or moralistic denunciations of the abstractions of wealth and finance, this book should, despite its density, act as a wake-up call to anyone who hopes for a reinvigoration of the anticapitalist left. -- John P.
Merrick Review31 Werner Bonefeld's outstanding book revitalizes the best tradition of critical theory, which he proficiently combines with the critique of political economy and new readings of Marx. Bonefeld's book is essential for anyone who wants to understand the inverted world of capitalism and to fight its barbarism.
Massimiliano Tomba, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Universita di Padova, Italy Bringing together Adorno's Critical Theory and Marx's Critique of Political Economy sheds rather new light on basic concepts of Marx's Critique like the law of value, class, and state, and allows Werner Bonefeld to leave the usual road
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