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Gallas, Alexander. "The silent treatment of class domination: ‘Critical’ comparative capitalisms scholarship and the British state." Capital & Class 38, no. 1 (February 2014): 225–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816813514817.

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This article is a meta-critique, from an Althusserian and Poulantzasian perspective, of critical accounts of the British state. It is based on a ‘symptomatic reading’ of key texts written by Andrew Gamble, Colin Hay and Chris Howell, which demonstrates that they misconstrue the dynamics of capitalism and the effects of state interventions and class conflict. Against this backdrop, the article outlines an approach to state analysis based on the concept of ‘capitalist class domination’, which avoids the tendency of both critical political science and comparative capitalisms scholarship to substitute the study of specific aspects of capitalism for the analysis of capitalism as a structured whole.

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Curty, Gaël. "Rethinking Capitalism, Crisis, and Critique: An Interview With Nancy Fraser." Critical Sociology 46, no. 7-8 (April 27, 2020): 1327–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0896920520918506.

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Nancy Fraser is internationally recognized as one of the most prominent critical theorists of our time and is highly regarded for her work on feminism and capitalism. In this interview, she sets out the new conceptions of capitalism, crisis, and critique that she has been developing since her 2014 article “Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode.” She begins by presenting an original conception of capitalism as an “institutionalized social order,” which includes not only its economic features, but also its social, ecological, and political background conditions of possibility. After defining the normative foundations of capitalism and the corresponding boundary struggles to which it gives rise, she then explores the multiple crises it is currently experiencing. Inspired by Marx’s tripartite critique, she concludes by proposing a new multi-stranded critique of capitalism, which combines a functionalist critique of capitalism’s tendencies to crisis with a normative critique of domination and a political critique of unfreedom.

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O'Kane, Chris. "Critical Theory and the Critique of Capitalism: An Immanent Critique of Nancy Fraser's “Systematic” “Crisis-Critique” of Capitalism as an “Institutionalized Social Order”." Science & Society 85, no. 2 (April 2021): 207–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/siso.2021.85.2.207.

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The predominant approach to contemporary critical theory lacks a critical theory of capitalist society. Nancy Fraser has endeavored to provide such a critical theory in her “systematic” “crisis–critique” of capitalism as an “institutionalized social order.” Yet Fraser's “systematic” theory is not systematic, but fragmentary and internally inconsistent. The Marxian premises of Fraser's theory are at odds with its ensuing Habermasian notions of capitalism, contradiction, crises, and emancipation, and her theory consequently lacks a robust explication of these dynamics. This raises the alternative possibility of developing a contemporary critical theory of the crisis–ridden reproduction of the negative totality of capitalist society that brings Adorno and Horkheimer's critical theory together with the subterranean strand of contemporary critical theory: the New Reading of the critique of political economy as a critical social theory.

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Tarlow, Sarah. "Capitalism and critique." Antiquity 73, no. 280 (June 1999): 467–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0008844x.

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Seybold, Peter. "Sociology, Capitalism, Critique." Socialism and Democracy 30, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 208–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2016.1143658.

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Osorio, Jaime. "SOBRE SUPEREXPLORAÇÃO E CAPITALISMO DEPENDENTE." Caderno CRH 31, no. 84 (March 28, 2019): 483. http://dx.doi.org/10.9771/ccrh.v31i84.26139.

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<p>Este artigo é uma crítica às teses que sustentam que Marx não teria deixado dúvidas de que a força de trabalho de nosso tempo é paga por seu valor, o que exigiria abandonar a categoria de superexploração. Aqui, procuramos mostrar que a violação do valor da força de trabalho é um problema inscrito na teoria marxista e presente em O Capital. Por outro lado, argumentamos sobre a relevância da noção de capitalismo dependente e seu significado para entender as particularidades desse capitalismo, que o separa das trajetórias e objetivos do capitalismo desenvolvido.</p><p><span>ABOUT SUPER- EXPLOITATION AND DEPENDENT CAPITALISM</span></p><div class="trans-abstract"><p>This article is a critique of the theories that sustain that Marx affirms that the labor force is paid for its value. Here we try to show that a violation of the value of the labor force is a problem inscribed in Marxist theory and present in <em>O Capital</em>. On the other hand, it argues about the importance of the notion of dependent capitalism and its meaning to understand its particularities that separate it from the traits and objectives of capitalism developed.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Superexplotation; Dependent capitalism; Capitalism patterns</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><span>SUR SUPEREXPLOTATION ET CAPITALISME DÉPENDANT</span></p><p>Cet article est une critique des théories qui soutiennent que Marx affirme que la force de travail est payée pour sa valeur. Nous essayons ici de montrer qu’uneviolation de la valeur de la force de travail est unproblèm einscrit dans la théorie marxiste et présent dans <em>O Capital</em>. D’autre part, il argumente sur l’importance de la notion de capitalisme dépendant et sa signification pour comprendre ses particularités qui le séparent des traits et des objectifs du capitalisme développé.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Superexplotation; Capitalisme dépendant; Modèles de capitalisme</p></div>

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Collard, Rosemary-Claire, and Jessica Dempsey. "Two icebergs: Difference in feminist political economy." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 1 (October 9, 2019): 237–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x19877887.

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In economic geography and beyond, a call for attention to difference or multiplicity – of logics, subjects, geographies – within capitalist and economic relations is often interpreted as a critique in the vein of JK Gibson-Graham: a call to explore capitalism’s alternatives, weaknesses – ‘cracks and fissures’. But there are feminist political economists for whom the multiplicity within and outside capitalism is a source of capitalism’s power; capitalism functions, accumulates and reproduces itself through heterogeneity. In this commentary, we focus on a particular underused theorist who exemplifies such an approach: Maria Mies. We put Mies in conversation with the much better-known Gibson-Graham via each of their depictions of economic relations as an iceberg. We consider each iceberg (and the understanding of capitalism they represent) in relation to capitalist natures scholarship in particular, drawing on our research on the production of emaciated caribou natures in Canada as a mini ‘field test’ for where the icebergs direct our analytical attention. We present these icebergs as a small step towards opening up a broader terrain of feminist theorisations of capitalism and difference than is sometimes recognised in economic geography and political ecology.

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Kivotidis, Dimitrios. "Break or Continuity? Friedrich Engels and the Critique of Digital Surveillance." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 19, no. 1 (November 27, 2020): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v19i1.1213.

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This paper is a contribution to the argument that Engels’s work remains topical and may provide us with the analytical tools necessary to approach contemporary manifestations of capitalist contradictions. Based on Engels’s work on political economy (with emphasis on his contribution to the labour theory of value and the articulation of the law on the tendency of the rate of profit to fall) it will critically review the concept of “surveillance capitalism” as developed by Shoshana Zuboff, in order to explain central aspects of the process of digital surveillance. In particular, it will criticise the view expressed by Zuboff that surveillance capitalism constitutes a break with capitalism’s past and can be tamed through an enhancement of democratic accountability and regulation. Marxist contributions to the critique of digital surveillance have already approached this phenomenon in a many-sided manner. This paper builds upon these contributions and suggests that the exponential growth of digital platforms can be explained as a direct result of the development of capitalist contradictions, especially the contradiction between productive forces and relations of production as expressed in the law of the falling rate of profit.

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Haque, Ziaul. "Krishna Bharadwaj and Sudipta Kaviraj (eels) Perspectives on Capitalism - Marx, Keynes, Schumpeter and Weber. New Delhi. Sage Publications. 1989. pp.265 + Index. Price: Rs 190.00 (Hardbound) and Rs 90.00 (paperbound)." Pakistan Development Review 29, no. 2 (June 1, 1990): 175–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v29i2pp.175-183.

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As a socio-economic world system, capitalism has undergone various historical changes from its early competitive market phase to late monopo~y capitalism. In its early phase, it largely constituted a process of transition gradually emerging from the feudal mode of production, which laid heavy restrictions on the new class of rising industrialists, businessmen, and merchants. Classical economists were the ideological champions of these progressive social classes; progressive as compared to the erstwhile feudal and monarchical classes. Karl Marx's critique of capitalism was an explanation of how capitalism as a growing socio-economic organism evolved from the pre-capitalist feudal order and was leading towards higher socio-economic formations. In this analysis of the capitalist economic system, Marx laid bare its internal contradictions and its crisis-ridden anarchic production, which in his view would inevitably yield place to socialism. His thesis was confirmed by the social revolutions which occurred after his death in 1883. He was witness to a period of capitalism which produced misery and pauperization of the working classes on a large scale, and wealth and prosperity for a tiny but powerful class of capitalists of various categories.

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Wagner, Peter. "Modernity, Capitalism and Critique." Thesis Eleven 66, no. 1 (August 2001): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513601066000002.

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Lau, Kwan-ching Josephine, and 劉羣貞. "Toward freedom: a critique of the ideologies of late capitalism." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B27777406.

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Chan, Shuk-ying, and 陳淑瑩. "Capitalism and the good life : a critique of liberal state neutrality." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/196495.

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Capitalism has been evaluated by liberals primarily for its distributive consequences. Liberal egalitarians argue for state responsibility in rectifying economic injustices. Yet capitalism is not only an institution of distribution. Rather, it creates ethical and cultural consequences that pervade every aspect of life. In order to function as a system, capitalism requires individuals to spend the greatest part of their lives actively participating in production and consumption. It requires individuals to be profit-seeking, materialistic, consumption-loving, and to define the good life in terms of career and economic success. In short, a particular conception of the good life is embedded in and promoted by capitalism. The rising phenomena of consumerism and the work-centered life that dominate developed societies are empirical testimonies to this inherent bias in the economic system. According to liberal state neutrality, however, the state must remain neutral on matters of the good life, and thus this state of affairs does not render state attention. This thesis argues that state neutrality is both impossible and undesirable by showing the inherent contradiction between ideals of individual freedom and societal pluralism at the core of liberalism, and the very specific conception of the good life that is embedded in and promoted by capitalism. First, I explicate the ethical aspect, or the conception of the good life inherent in capitalism; second, I show how it is promoted through manipulation and incentives-sanctions mechanisms that restrict individual choice; third, I examine the neutralist distinction between justification and consequence and argue that it is impossible for the state to claim neutrality under capitalism, and that it is at least negatively responsible for the ethical impact of capitalism. Lastly, I conclude that there needs to be some form of perfectionist state that takes up the task of evaluating dominating conceptions of the good in terms of their contribution to the good life.
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Hedenqvist, Robin, and Hannah Johansson. "Challenging Green Capitalism : An ideology Critique of Max Burgers' Environmental Strategies." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-147993.

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Environmental strategies implemented today are strongly influenced by the ideologies capitalism, neoliberalism and ecomodernism. As such, they should promote global economic expansion while mitigating environmental impact. This is in line with the prevailing environmental political discourse of sustainable development, in which economic, ecological and social dimensions are considered compatible and dependent on each other. However, this essay challenges the normative assumption regarding the win-win-win narrative by examining the economic, ecological and social consequences of Max Burgers’ environmental strategies through three critical scientific theories. By posing an ideology critique and through the lens of our theoretical framework, we find that Max Burgers mystifies the apparent relation between local economic growth, global ecological impact and divided social progress, thus reinforcing unequal power dynamics and patterns of uneven development.

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Barnum, Elizabeth Aileen. "Non-reified space| Henry James's critique of capitalism through abstractness and ambiguity." Thesis, The University of North Dakota, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3714360.

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Despite Henry James’s reputation as a novelist of upper class manners, many critics have argued that his work also contains well-grounded criticism of capitalism and consumer culture. An even larger number of writers have analyzed James’s idiosyncratic style, characterized by ambiguity and abstractness. Where these two analytic approaches overlap, the area examined in this dissertation, James makes a deeper critique of capitalism’s redefinition of human purpose and its reification of the human mind and consciousness. James suggests, through his ambiguous and abstract language, that open-ended language which rejects concrete and conceptual meaning can gesture toward a space in which people can reclaim their full humanity and reject the reification of life – a space that is non-reified. Moreover, this non-reified space, while it can help an individual redefine her subjectivity, is brought to fruition when people share deeply intersubjective connections. By applying to four James novels the Marxist elaboration of commodification and reification by Georg Lukács, the detailed analysis of Jamesian grammar and syntax by Seymour Chatman, and the phenomenological discussions of language and intersubjectivity by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as the views of Gertrude Stein on the importance of allowing linguistic space that is not already filled with meaning, this dissertation finds James’s gesture toward a space in which people can be fully human, experience each other as fully human, and rediscover language as a powerful force for mutual creation of the next moment and, from there, the world.

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Bates, Stephen Robert. "The body and human nature in consumer capitalism : a critique of biotechnology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633108.

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Unlike in previous phases of capitalism, the body now appears in every moment of the circuit of industrial capital. Developments within biotechnology are leading to the body becoming a core product of capitalism; it is at the frontier of commodification within consumer society. Existing accounts within bioethics are unable, or unwilling, fully to interrogate the implications of these developments. Thus, within a critical realist and Marxist framework and employing Marx, Baudrillard, Cohen and Polanyi among others, this thesis critiques biotechnological developments within late capitalism and the impact that these developments will have on embodied agency. It is argued that three producers operate on the body within consumer society: the producer proper, the society as producer and the individual as producer. The ultimate consequence of this is that, during moments of consumption proper of biotechnological commodities, individuals are simultaneously undertaking an act of production proper; they are producing a use-value, which blurs the boundaries between fictitious and real commodities and which, through a process of rationalisation, benefits society through enhancing the stock of human capital. Individuals materialise and internally consume aspects of capitalist human nature, which intensify and, potentially, petrify the processes of reification and alienation which occur in capitalist society.

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Sachikonye, Tawanda. "A Foucauldian critique of neo-liberalsim." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003038.

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This study attempts to make a contribution to the critique of contemporary capitalism. This has been conceptualised through a Foucauldian critique of neo-liberalism, that is, Foucault’s concepts of power and governmentality have been used to criticise neo-liberalism. The study argues that neo-liberalism is a hegemonic and oppressive politico-economic social system. This has occurred in two ways; firstly, neo-liberalism came to dominate the global economy and, secondly, neo-liberalism has become the dominant politico-economic discourse. An attempt is made to expose the discourses and institutions that buttress the neo-liberal project by undertaking a Foucauldian critique. According to Foucault, knowledge shapes the social space through its ‘mechanisms’, discourses and institutions. In order to critique neo-liberalism, it is necessary to expose its power-knowledge base, which is what gives it legitimacy. By analysing and exposing neo-liberalism’s power-knowledge base, its oppression becomes clear through an observation of the material effects of neo-liberal ideology and policy. This study also evaluates to what extent Marxism is a viable alternative to neo-liberalism, in order to ascertain what Foucault adds to already existing critiques of capitalism, and neo-liberalism, in particular. It concludes by arguing that even though Marxism provides a useful framework in which to understand neo-liberal domination, its labour based social theory is somewhat outdated in our contemporary age of the information society. Therefore, it is Foucault’s concept of power-knowledge that is most pertinent in providing an effective critical theory of neo-liberalism in the age of the information society, as it focuses on the primacy of power-knowledge in matters of domination.

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Monferrand, Frédéric. "Marx, ontologie sociale et critique du capitalisme : une lecture des manuscrits économico-philosophiques de 1844." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100035.

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À quel type d’ontologie fait-on appel lorsqu’on affirme que le capitalisme est une forme d’organisation sociale spécifique et historiquement dépassable ? C’est pour répondre à cette question que nous entreprenons dans cette étude une lecture des Manuscrits économico-philosophiques de 1844. À partir de l’analyse de leur contexte jeune-hégélien d’élaboration comme des enjeux de leur réception dans le marxisme, nous soutenons la thèse selon laquelle Marx s’appuie dans ces manuscrits sur une description critique de l’expérience de l’aliénation pour développer une ontologie processuelle de la société. Cette ontologie conjugue une théorie des formes aliénantes qui structurent le monde social (argent, division du travail, propriété privée) à une théorie du contenu aliéné sous ces formes (forces et objets essentiels, nature et être générique). Le modèle critique qui se dégage ainsi – que nous proposons de qualifier de « critique ontologique du capitalisme – a produit de profonds effets sur les différentes tentatives accomplies, de Herbert Marcuse à Louis Althusser et de Georg Lukács à Antonio Negri, pour conférer au projet d’une transformation radicale de la société l’ontologie qu’il mérite. Et c’est par l’évaluation de ces effets qu’il est possible de poser à nouveaux frais la question des ruptures et des continuités entre les Manuscrits de 1844 et Le Capital
What type of ontology is mobilized when one asserts that capitalism is a form of social organization which is specific and can be historically overcome? In order to answer this question, we proceed in this study to a reading of the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Starting with an analysis of their young-Hegelian context of elaboration as well as of the stakes of their reception within Marxism, I argue that Marx in these manuscripts builds upon a critical description of the experience of alienation to develop a processual ontology of society. This ontology combines a theory of the alienated forms that structure the social world (money, division of labour, private property) and a theory of the content alienated under these forms (essential forces and objects, nature and species-being). The critical model that emerges here – which can be described as a “critical ontology of capitalism” - has produced profound effects on the different attempts by theoreticians, from Herbert Marcuse to Louis Althusser and from Georg Lukács to Antonio Negri, to confer to the project of a radical transformation of society the ontology it deserves. And it is by the evaluation of its effects that it become possible to formulate anew the question of the ruptures and continuities between the Manuscripts of 1844 and Capital

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Erkurt, Beyhan. "A Critique Of World-system Inspired Historiography Of Transition To Capitalism In The Ottoman Empire." Master's thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615599/index.pdf.

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This thesis examines world-system inspired historiography on transition to capitalism in the Ottoman Empire that has been developed as a criticism of the modernization theory that was dominant in the analyses of the Ottoman transformation. It is argued that although the world system inspired analyses overcome the restrictions imposed by the modernization analyses that are based on the deficiencies of Ottoman society compared to the West, they are also crippled with their own restrictions. Considering change as a product of external dynamics, and ignoring internal relations and potentials, it commits the same mistake of regarding the &lsquo
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as stagnant and shorn of any life, dynamics for creating change and therefore history. In this perspective, the peripheral societies such as the Ottoman society do not have the potential to be the actor of change but can only be subjected to it. Therefore, it is argued that the world-system inspired accounts fall short in understanding the process of change in the Ottoman Empire and the dynamics behind it. On that account, this thesis stresses the importance of studying the uneven but mutual relations between internal and external factors in order to understand social transformations that occur in and through the social relations and contradictions. There is, therefore a need to develop an account of the transition of the Ottoman Empire to capitalism with the help of such an approach.

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Prenzler, Timothy James, and n/a. "Ideology and Narrative Realism : a Critique of Post-Althusserian Anti-Realism." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 1991. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20051116.101351.

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This thesis defends the potential of the realist form of narrative for contesting, as well as reproducing, ideology. The common form of realism consists of a loose ensemble of conventions. The key components are omniscient, evaluative narration; an empiricist objectivism; the construction of individuals as agents of action and bearers of natural attributes; cause and effect sequencing; conflict leading to resolution; mystery leading to disclosure; and the effacement of these techniques in the interests of illusion. In one critique of realism post-Althusserian anti-realism - these practices constitute ideology both in a general sense - as manipulation - and a specific sense - as transmitters of capitalist presuppositions. A 'social realism' or critical realism, which attempts to invalidate ideology by the presentation of countervailing data, is said to be undercut by its encoding within this alleged inherently ideological form. This critique of realism is based on an unsustainable, formalist, reduction of content to form. The role of observation in knowledge production and the significance of inductively generated propositions are replaced by a sophisticated, but ultimately reductive, discursive determinism. From its conventionalist epistemological premises, post-Althusserian anti-realism ignores the capacity of empiricism to break with preconceptions. By dismissing the convention of accountability to evidence, the critique is forced back onto criteria of internal consistency - a position even more vulnerable to prejudice than empiricism. The thesis then argues that the concomitant view of the subject of narrative realism as a construct of liberal-individualism ignores how realist texts have questioned ideas of autonomy and a fixed human nature. Anti-realist methods have usefully exposed some of the means by which constructions of freedom and self-determination mask the subordination of labour in free -market economies. However, this frequently entails undervaluing gains made under a rubric of human rights. The replacement of human subjectivity with discursive or economic determinism tends to expel dialogue, volition and human needs as factors in the ideational and practical repudiation of ideology. A narrow approach to realism is therefore inadequate for determining the relation of realism to ideology. The alternative position defended here is that realisms relation to capitalism - like that of liberalism and empiricism - is tangential, not homologous. The variability of content in realism makes realist techniques - as abstract form - politically neutral (but claimed by anti-realists to be intrinsically authoritarian). Realist conventions which construct a point of view are open options for making judgements that will vary in empirical rigour and opposition to different ideologies. The thesis sets the authoritarian aspects of realisms attempted manipulation of the reader against the potential in realism for a dialogic plurality of perspectives, the possible defensibility of a point of view, the need for coherence and judgement in political dialogue and action, and the frequency of content-based reader resistance. The realist form is not an absolute of representation, but nor is it a mere reflex of capitalism. By the same token, the anti-realist concept of the anti-ideological function of anti-realist texts imposes a reverse, homogeneous, inherently oppositional role onto politically heterogenous cultural forms. The thesis argues, furthermore, that by rejecting empiricist modes of substantiation and adopting a mechanistic view of ideology, the post-Althusserian critique of realism fails to engage adequately with the theoretical defence of capitalism. The harmony thesis of free enterprise can only be given a pejorative label ideology on the basis of comparative and historical considerations of the performance of capitalism. In practice, the natural tendency of the market to cyclical instability with attendant unemployment, impoverishment and the compounding of class-based inequalities has only been mitigated by extensive government intervention. The thesis concludes then with a case study of Dickenss Hard Times as an example of the above, more effective, approach to capitalist legitimation. Hard Times employs empiricist, semi-fictional, realist techniques to demonstrate the ideological nature of theories of free enterprise. The critical edge of this novel is blunted by a liberal-romanticism that is ambivalent about legal-institutional solutions to social problems. Despite this fault, Hard Times shows some of the possibilities offered by the realist form for viable social critique.

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Celis, Bueno Claudio. "Towards an immanent critique of the attention economy : labour, time, and power in post-Fordist capitalism." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/74711/.

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This thesis develops an immanent critique of the concept of attention economy from the perspectives of labour, time, and power. The attention economy is a notion forged by authors belonging to the field of political economy in order to explain the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital, human attention becomes a scarce and hence increasingly valuable commodity. At the same time, the attention economy turns human attention into a form of labour and hence into a new mechanism of capitalist exploitation. Using a series of contemporary readings of Marx (Postone; Lazzarato; Negri and Hardt;Deleuze and Guattari), this thesis develops a critique which does not simply apply Marxist categories to the object of the attention economy, but which uses the attention economy as a concrete object of analysis for reflecting upon both the validity and the importance of Marx‟s critique of political economy for a critique of contemporary capitalism. In other words, this research suggests that, although the attention economy has indeed turned human attention into a new form of labour, it is only through a systematic reinterpretation of Marx‟s categories that this claim can be fully grasped. This reinterpretation comprises two general aspects. Firstly, this thesis argues that the way in which the attention economy produces and exploits value puts into crisis the traditional category of labour based on an industrial mode of production and which relies solely on abstract labour time as its general equivalent. This calls for an analysis of the labour-value relation from the standpoint of the endogenous transformation of capitalism. Secondly, this thesis suggests that the attention economy operates as a concrete power mechanism which reterritorializes the unleashed productive powers in order to reproduce capital‟s command over human activity. This requires addressing the specific transformations of the diagram of power from disciplinary societies towhat Deleuze has defined as societies of control.

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Sociology - capitalism - critique. London: Verso, 2015.

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Bargu, Banu, and Chiara Bottici, eds. Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6.

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Wilcock, Neil, and Corina Scholz. Hartmut Elsenhans and a Critique of Capitalism. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56464-1.

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Koslowski, Peter. Ethics of Capitalism and Critique of Sociobiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03311-1.

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Dennis, Smith. The Chicago school: A liberal critique of capitalism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

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Smith, Dennis. The Chicago school: A liberal critique of capitalism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

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The Chicago school: A liberal critique of capitalism. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Education, 1988.

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Urẽna, Enrique M. Capitalism or socialism?: An economic critique for Christians. Chicago, Ill: Franciscan Herald Press, 1988.

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La réification: Histoire et actualité d'un concept critique. Paris: La Dispute, 2014.

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Le communautarisme: Théorie et critique des doctrines économiques. Bujumbura: s.n., 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Capitalism critique"

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Pitts, Frederick Harry. "Class, Critique and Capitalist Crisis." In Critiquing Capitalism Today, 105–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62633-8_5.

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Bargu, Banu, and Chiara Bottici. "Introduction." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 1–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_1.

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Ferrara, Alessandro. "Curbing the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets: The Grammar of Counter-Hegemonic Resistance and the Polanyian Narrative." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 167–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_10.

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Honneth, Axel. "Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment After One Century." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 185–207. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_11.

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Jaeggi, Rahel. "Crisis, Contradiction, and the Task of a Critical Theory." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 209–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_12.

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Forst, Rainer. "What’s Critical About a Critical Theory of Justice?" In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 225–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_13.

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Allen, Amy. "Beyond Kant Versus Hegel: An Alternative Strategy for Grounding the Normativity of Critique." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 243–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_14.

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Zaretsky, Eli. "Nancy Fraser and the Left: A Searching Idea of Equality." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 263–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_15.

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Bernstein, Richard J. "From Socialist Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 17–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_2.

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Blackburn, Robin. "Debates on Slavery, Capitalism and Race: Old and New." In Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique, 43–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Capitalism critique"

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Alwin, Muhammad Evan, and Joesana Tjahjani. "The Main Character’s Construction and the Critique of Capitalism in the Film Deux Jours, Une Nuit." In International University Symposium on Humanities and Arts (INUSHARTS 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200729.018.

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