John Holloway
READING CAPITAL: WEALTH
IN-AGAINST-AND BEYOND VALUE – JOHN HOLLOWAY IN LINCOLN
School of Education
University of Lincoln
1:00-4:00pm
Minerva Building, MB1012
Brayford Pool
16 June 2017
Professor John Holloway will
be speaking about his new work, ‘Reading
Capital: wealth in-against-and-beyond value’ at the University of Lincoln, on
16th of June.
John’s
reading and writings on Marxist social theory are highly influential as a way
of rethinking Marx in terms of ‘Change
the World Without Taking Power’ (2005) and abolishing the social relations
of capitalist production through acts of resistance, as ways to ‘Crack Capitalism’ (2010). In this new
work, ‘Reading Capital’ John points
out that Capital does not start with the commodity, as Marx and probably all
commentators since Marx have claimed. It actually starts with wealth: “The wealth
of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an
‘immense collection of commodities’ …” Seeing wealth and not the commodity as
the starting point has enormous consequences, both theoretically and
politically. To say that Capital starts not with the commodity but with wealth
is both revolutionary and self-evident. The challenge is to trace this
antagonism through the three volumes of Marx’s Capital. This is the theme of the talk.
Free
Buffet lunch is included.
Register for this event: https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/crack-capitalism.html
Research in Critical
Education Studies (RiCES): https://criticaleducation.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
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