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One of the most fundamental operations of Capital was the dissecting of economic categories previously used by classical political economy and the discussion of these categories in terms of their class meaning (Cleaver, 1979). This is the explicit reference of Marx’s ‘critique of political economy’, that ‘in so far as it represents a class …[it represents] the proletariat’ (Marx, 1867, p. 98).
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De Angelis, M. (1998). Burning Questions of an Old Book: Commodity Fetishism and Class Relations in Volume III of Capital. In: Bellofiore, R. (eds) Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26121-5_17
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