Marx on Globalisation'All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned ... the need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere' ... this was the Communist Manifesto's description of the global reach of capitalism. Globalisation, evidently, is not a new phenomenon; but on the eve of the new millennium, the processes that constitute the phenomenon of globalisation are intensifying, and being experienced in new ways. The immense scholarship and analytic powers of Marx mean that his writings on international capitalism and its effects remain of interest in current debates on globalisation. With this in mind, Lawrence and Wishart offer a new selection from the writings of Marx, in the hope that it will enrich current discussions. The selection includes extracts from The Communist Manifesto, Capital volumes 1-3, The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 and The Poverty of Philosophy Dave Renton teaches History at Edge Hill College and is the author of Fascism: Theory and Practice (Pluto, 1999). |
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THE WORLD ECONOMY | 23 |
PROGRESS | 39 |
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accumulation activity alienated labour become bill of exchange bourgeois bourgeoisie British capitalist production China colonial commerce commodity capital commodity supply Communist Manifesto competition consequence constant capital consumption cotton division of labour economic Engels Collected England English estranged labour Europe existence extract factory feudal Feuerbach Frederick Engels Free Trade global globalisation hand hence human increased India individual instrument of production intercourse Karl Marx labour power laws London machinery manufacturer Marx and Engels Marx argued Marx's means of production mode of production Modern Industry money capital monopoly nature object organisation Otechestvenniye Zapiski political economy private property productive capital productive forces productive power proletariat proportion rate of profit raw materials relation relationship reproduction process revolution rise of wages Russian social society species-being spinner surplus value theory tion transformation variable capital Vera Zasulich wage-labourers wealth whole worker