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The text frames the resurgence of protest after 2011 and the renewed questioning of capitalism after the 2008 banking crisis, contrasting earlier resignation with later critiques. It emphasizes how understanding capitalism’s mode of operation connects directly to practical anti-capitalist movements, linking capitalism, the state, and war.","An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital  \nAn Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital  \nby MICHAEL HEINRICH Translated by Alexander Locascio  \nCopyright © 2004 by Michael Heinrich All Rights Reserved  \nOriginally published as Kritik der politischen Ökonomie: Eine Einführung by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany © 2004 by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH. English translation by Alexander Locascio published by Monthly Review Press 2012 © by Monthly Review Press  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heinrich, Michael, 1957–  \n[Kritik der politischen Vkonomie. English]  \nAn introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital / by Michael  \nHeinrich ; translated by Alexander Locascio.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nOriginally published as Kritik der politischen Vkonomie: Eine Einf|hrung by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, c2004, by Schmetterling Verlag GmbH.”  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-1-58367-288-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-1-58367- 289-1  \n(cloth: alk. paper) 1. Marx, Karl, 1818–1883. Kapital. 2. Marxian economics. I. Title.  \nHB501 .M37H4513 2012  \n335.4’1—dc23  \n2012019993  \nMonthly Review Press  \n146 West 29th Street, Suite 6WNew York, New York 10001  \n[www.monthlyreview.org](www.monthlyreview.org)  \n5 4 3 2 1  \nContents  \nPreface  \n1. Capitalism and Marxism  \n2. The Object of Critique in the Critique of Political Economy  \n3. Value, Labor, Money  \n4. Capital, Surplus Value, and Exploitation  \n5. The Capitalist Process of Production  \n6. The Circulation of Capital  \n7. Profit, Average Profit, and the “Law of the Tendency of the Rate of  \nProfit to Fall”  \n8. Interest, Credit, and “Fictitious Capital”  \n9. Crisis  \n10. The Fetishism of Social Relations in Bourgeois Society  \n11. State and Capital  \n12. Communism—Society beyond the Commodity, Money, and the  \nState  \nBibliography  \nNotes  \nIndex  \nPreface  \nProtest is occurring again. In 2011 the “Arab Spring” rocked the Arab world and overthrew a number of rulers, who seemed to be invincible, at least to their people. In summer people in several countries of Western Europe were inspired by the actions of the Arab Spring. They conquered public places to protest against the policies of the governments. And in fall 2011 “Occupy Wall Street” started in New York leading to “Occupy”-movements in many other countries. With the banking crisis of 2008 more people than ever during the last decades question capitalism: is it really the system which provides freedom and wealth for the majority as is promised by its supporters? Or is it the system which brings wealth only to the 1 percent and economic pressure and misery at different levels to the 99 percent? Even beyond traditionally left circles, discussions about the destructive consequences of capitalism are taking place.  \nThat this is not a matter of course is proven by a quick glance into the past. At the beginning of the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it seemed as though capitalism had ultimately and globally triumphed as an economic and social model to which there was no alternative. Although there had always been many on the left who did not see a desirable alternative to capitalism in Soviet “really existing socialism,” such distinctions no longer seemed important. To most people, a society beyond the capitalist market economy appeared only as an entirely unrealistic utopia. Instead of protest, accommodation and resignation reigned.  \nBut it was also—and in particular—the 1990s which showed that capitalism, even after its apparent “final victory,” continued to go hand in hand with processes of crisis and immiseration; and Kosovo, Afghanistan, and the first war in Iraq showed that wars in which the developed capitalist countries were not only indirectly, but indeed very directly involved, were by no means a thing of the past. All this was taken up in different forms by the new counter-globalization” movement and other","cbCairuM8Y2ymGPp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairuM8Y2ymGPp","pdf",1491406,3,1,235,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## Preface\n## 1. Capitalism and Marxism\n## 2. The Object of Critique in the Critique of Political Economy\n## 3. Value, Labor, Money\n## 4. Capital, Surplus Value, and Exploitation\n## 5. 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