{"product_id":"the-automatic-fetish-by-beverley-best-9781804294802","title":"The Automatic Fetish","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Automatic Fetish\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the clarity and coherence of Marx’s critique in \u003cem\u003eCapital\u003c\/em\u003e III against the perennial tendency to shrug it off as a posthumous bundle of notes. Far from an incomplete theoretical system, Best identifies and elaborates a specific theory of movement and appearances (a “perceptual physics”) that lies at the heart of the matter of the third volume of \u003cem\u003eCapital\u003c\/em\u003e, and that forms the conceptual bridge between \u003cem\u003eCapital\u003c\/em\u003e I, II, \u0026amp; III.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the coherence of Marx’s project, Best demonstrates the need for \u003cem\u003edemonstration\u003c\/em\u003e: Marx’s theoretical system in \u003cem\u003eCapital\u003c\/em\u003e cannot be posited or described; rather, it must be demonstrated, and this is what Best does, step by step, through an exposition of each Part of Book Three.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeither a “back to basics” nor newfangled reconstruction, \u003cem\u003eThe Automatic Fetish\u003c\/em\u003e eschews novelty to show why, once again, Marx deserves to be read carefully. By “unreconstructing” Marx, Best demonstrates how the analytical power of Marx’s critique is as relevant today as it ever was for the analysis of the capitalist mode of production, which is still in the process of immiserating and destroying everything there is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Automatic Fetish\u003c\/em\u003e is an apologia of Marx without apologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599114060012,"sku":"9781804294802","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b27caf6f172d2b4f6af4b14a56019496.jpg?v=1778037659","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-automatic-fetish-by-beverley-best-9781804294802","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}