A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation

This book explores a variety of interconnected themes central to contemporary Marxist theory and its further development as a critical social theory.

Championing the critique of political economy as a critical theory of society and rejecting Marxian economics as a contradiction in terms, it argues instead that economic categories are perverted social categories, before identifying the sheer unrest of life - the struggle to make ends meet - as the negative content of the reified system of ec...