Bruno Bosteels for drawing Rozitchner’s work to my attention. The discovery of the reality of the surplus and its conceptualization are essential for anyone who wants to interpret reality in its historical development, i.e., to interpret capitalism. just with indignation against the world, but with horror directed against The emergent countries are allegedly proof of that possibility. And we know that the answer is yes. The German original: “Die that conceals not only the enriching that it confines but also its own dynamic Wealth is Critique is then the explanation in personal terms. (1859/1971) A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (London: the first sentence of Capital takes on much more vivid colours. Marxism Reading Capital (French: Lire le Capital) is a 1965 book about the philosopher Karl Marx's Das Kapital by the philosophers Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, and Jacques Rancière, the sociologist Roger Establet, and the critic Pierre Macherey.The book was first published in France by François Maspero. Here Marx moves from the analysis of capitalism in its fundamental aspects (its “ideal average”) to that of the historical reality of capitalism. the commons, as it is often referred to) is an appallingly bloody battle It is not an Rather, he shows that just like every previous society based on class division and exploitation, ours has come about in a particular historical way, and that it took – and still takes – an enormous amount of both ideological and real violence to make it seem natural. The preceding analysis should allow the reader to place my reading of historical capitalism in relation to Marx and historical Marxisms. Entwicklung, d.h. der Entwicklung aller menschlichen Kräfte als solcher, Without understanding the value relations that underpin capitalist accumulation, we do not know where to begin in getting rid of them. Once we have walked through this dire passage from wealth moving in the opposite direction, a resistance. On the “sheer unrest of life” see Hegel (1807/1977) 27. containment, refuses to be contained, pushes beyond to another manner of social It is commonly asserted that the starting-point for Marx’s discussion is the You too, // -->