Beverley BestThe Automatic Fetish
The Law of Value in Marx's Capital
Beverley Best works on Marx’s critique of political economy and teaches in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. She is the author of Marx and Dynamic of the Capital Formation: An Aesthetics of Political Economy, and co-editor (with Werner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane) of The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. She is the vice-president of the Marxist Literary Group.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Unreconstructing Marx: The Perceptual Physics of Capital
Part I
THE PHYSICS OF CAPITAL AND THE MYSTIFICATION OF SURPLUS-VALUE
1 Rate of Profit: Production
2 General Rate of Profit: Competition
3 Falling Rate of Profit: Crisis
Part II
SHAPESHIFTING: CAPITAL’S SOCIAL FORMS (WHERE MYSTIFICATION OF SURPLUS-VALUE
DEEPENS AT THE SURFACE)
4 Transformation of Profit I: Commercial Profit
5 Transformation of Profit II: Interest
6 Transformation of Profit III: Ground-Rent
Conclusion: The Revenues and Their Sources: The Three Faces of
Surplus-Value
Index