Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital

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Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of the workers' movement. Understood in this light, Capit

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"Winner of the 2017 Deutscher Memorial Prize"
"Shortlisted for the 2018 C.B. Macpherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association"
"Imaginative and refreshingly enjoyable."---David Harvey, Jacobin
"Marx's Inferno is highly original and informative. . . . Roberts' insights open up a much broader and deeper reading of Marx. This is an excellent book." * Choice *
"A lucid interpretation."---Christian Lotz, Contemporary Political Theory
"Absorbing, wide-ranging, and original."---Nicholas Vrousalis, Capital & Class
"The most substantial treatment of Marxs political theory in recent years."---Daniel Luban, The Nation

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William Clare Roberts is assistant professor of political science at McGill University.