Naturalisation versus critique of economic categories: On Haug's introduction to Capital in changing times

Critique

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-292

  Bonefeld, Werner ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adorno; Althusser; Critical theory; Dialectics; Fetishism; History; Nature; Orthodox Marxism; Socialism; Value

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649112812     PISSN: 00111600     EISSN: 03017605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03017600902760752     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. See Wolfgang Fritz Haug, 'Zur Dialektikdes Antikapitalismus', Das Argument, 269 (2007), pp. 11-34; and
2. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, 'ibid., 'Untergang der deutschen Linksregierung - Aufstieg der Linkspartei', Das Argument, 256 (2005), pp. 451-458.
3. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Vorlesungen zur Einführung ins 'Kapital', 6th edition (Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 2005) ISBN: 3-88619-301-2, Euro, 15.50, pp. 198; and
4. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Neue Vorlesungen zur Einführung ins 'Kapital' (Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 2006), ISBN: 3-88619-330-6, Euro 17.50, pp. 270.
5. See, for example, Ernest Mandel and Winfried Wolf, Der Börsenkrach. Dreizehn Fragen (Frankfurt: IS Publications, 1988).
6. Simon Clarke, 'Overaccumulation, Class Struggle and the Regulation Approach', in Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway (eds) Post-Fordism and Social Form (London: Palgrave, 1991);
7. Werner Bonefeld, 'The Crisis of Theory', Capital & Class, 50 (1993), pp. 25-49. Suffice to say that Haug rightly likens these concepts toWeber's ideal types
8. A recent example is Michael Heinrich's Introduction to Capital, which since its first publication in 2004 has appeared in its 5th edition in 2007. Michael Heinrich, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. Eine Einführung (Stuttgard: Schmitterling Verlag, 5th edn, 2007).
9. See Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics (London: Verso, 1973), p. 355.
10. Alfred Schmidt, 'Zum Erkenntnisbegriff der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie', in Walter Euchner and Alfred Schmidt (eds) Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie heute. 100 Jahre 'Kapital' (Frankfurt: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1968), pp. 35-36.
11. Max Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften, vol.3, ed. by Alfred Schmidt (Frankfurt: Fischer).
12. See also Alfred Schmidt, Geschichte und Struktur (Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag) and
13. Kosmas Psychopedis, 'Dialectical Theory: Problems of Reconstruction', in Werner Bonefeld, Richard Gunn and Kosmas Psychopedis (eds) Open Marxism vol. I (London: Pluto Press, 1992).
14. Karl Marx, Grundrisse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973), p. 107.
15. See also Werner Bonefeld, 'Accumulazione primitiva e accumulazione capitalistica: categorie economiche e costituzione sociale', in D. Sacchetto and M. Tomba (eds) La Lunga Accumulazione Originaria. Politica e Lavoro nel Mercato Mondiale (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2008).
16. See Theodor Adorno, 'Sociology and Empirical Research', in Theodor Adorno et al., The Positivism Dispute in German Sociology (London: Heinemann, 1976), p. 80.
17. Hans Georg Backhaus, 'Ü ber den Doppelsinn der Begriffe "Politische Ökonomie" und "Kritik" bei Marx und in der Frankfurter Schule', in Stefan Dornuf and Reinhard Pitsch (eds) Wolfgang Harich zum Gedächnis. Eine Gedenkschrift in zwei Bänden, Vol.I (Munich: Müller & Nerding, 2000).
18. Haug, Vorlesungen, Wolfgang Harich zum Gedächnis. Eine Gedenkschrift in zwei Bänden, Vol.I 2000 op. cit., p. 93.
19. Karl Marx, Capital vol.I (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976), p. 141, fn 17.
20. Haug, Vorlesungen, Capital vol.I (1976), op. cit., p. 117.
21. Haug, Neue Vorlesungen, Capital vol.I (1976), op. cit., pp. 35, 36.
22. Cf. Richard Gunn, 'Against Historical Materialism', in Werner Bonefeld, Richard Gunn and Kosmas Psychopedis (eds) Open Marxism,- vol.II (London: Pluto Press, 1992).
23. See also Hans Georg Backhaus, 'Some Aspects of Marx's Concept of Critique in the Context of his Economic-Philosophical Theory'; and
24. Helmut Reichelt, 'Social Reality as Appearance: Some Notes on Marx's Conception of Reality', both in Werner Bonefeld and Kosmas Psychopedis (eds) Human Dignity: Social Autonomy and the Critique of Capitalism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
25. Imanuel Kant, Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 44.
26. For assessment, see Werner Bonefeld, 'Democracy and Dictatorship: Means and Ends of the State', Critique. Journal of Socialist Theory, 34:3 (2006), pp. 237-252.
27. Cf. Hans-Jürgen Krahl, Vom Ende der abstrakten Arbeit (Frankfurt: Materialis Verlag, 1984), pp 115-116.
28. See, for example, Simon Clarke, Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology, 2nd edn (London: Palgrave, 1992) and
29. Werner Bonefeld, '"Critical Economy" and Social Constitution', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6:2 (2004), pp. 231-237.
30. See, for example, Haug, Vorlesungen, "Critical Economy" and Social Constitution', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6:2 (2004), op. cit, p. 146.
31. Marx, Grundrisse, "Critical Economy" and Social Constitution', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6:2 (2004), op. cit, p. 87.