Capital: Book 3 - The Global Process of Capitalist Production (Vol. 5)

The fifth volume of Marx's great work The worldwide interest in Marx and his theory is undeniable. Capital is certainly the great thinker's most important work, to which he dedicated most of his life. It is in this book that, with full intellectual maturity, Marx deepens and systematizes the brilliant critical analysis, already present in the Communist Manifesto, of the forms of sociability that characterize the modern world. Still relevant today, the book continues to impact debates in so-called "economic science." Capital—which, not coincidentally, has the subtitle "Critique of Political Economy"—is not simply an economics book. Thanks to its use of the dialectical method, which prioritizes the perspective of totality, the work aims to reconstruct the main determinants of human social life globally. While the first book of Capital was devoted to the capitalist production process, and the second—published in 1885, two years after Marx's death—deals with the circulation of capital, this third volume, subdivided into three volumes, completes Marx's economic theory of the capitalist system as a whole. A true landmark of Marxist socialist thought. Georg Lukács's observation—"orthodoxy in matters of Marxism concerns only method"—indicates how Capital should be reread today: seeking in it not the positivist veracity of this or that statement, but the profound meaning of the critical-dialectical method with which it operates. If we do so, we will see that Capital continues to provide the most efficient instrument for dispelling the fetishistic veil with which current theorists of neoliberalism and "postmodernity" attempt to conceal the new and dramatic contradictions of "globalized" capitalism.