September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
8h 11m
English
Marx’s Political Economy Without the Subject
Teresa Brennan
Most radical papers today begin and end with one or two paragraphs lamenting the fact that the author has been unable to take account of race or gender or class, and that the author recognizes how important it is that such work be done. Well, this author recognizes it too, but wants to claim that a value theory without the subject/object distinction will enable us to make connections between race, gender, and class that go beyond goodwill, or the desire for these various forms of exploitation to have something in common.
What is a value theory without the subject/object distinction? It is an interpretation of Marx’s labor ...