Reading Capital by Louis Althusser & Étienne Balibar

Author:Louis Althusser & Étienne Balibar [Althusser, Louis & Balibar, Étienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Economics, Politics, Political Economy, Non-Fiction, Political Science, Marxism, Social Science
Publisher: New Left Books
Published: 1970-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8. Marx’s Critique

Marx rejected both the positive conception of a homogeneous field of given economic phenomena – and the ideological anthropology of the homo oeconomicus (etc.) which underlies it. Along with this unity he therefore rejected the very structure of the object of Political Economy.

First let us see what was the fate of classical anthropology in Marx’s work. For this purpose I shall make a rapid survey of the major regions of the economic ‘space’: consumption, distribution and production – in order to see what theoretical place is occupied in it by anthropological concepts.

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