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This book both argues for, and demonstrates, a new turn to dialectic. Marx's Capital was clearly influenced by Hegel's dialectical figures: here, case by case, the significance of these is clarified. More, it is argued that, instead of the dialectic of the rise and fall of social systems, what is…

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The author develops what he calls a new dialectic by drawing on the way Marx appropriated in Capital certain schemas of Hegels reasoning.

His basic thesis is that the dialectic in question does not refer to a succession of social systems, but to the systematic development of categories, i.e of conceptualizing the relations that characterize the capitalist mode of production.

Thus, value, money, and capital are categories that decipher the interconnectedness of social relations in capitalism.

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