By Bob Becking

This booklet, initially released in French below the name "Que faire du Capital?", deals a brand new interpretation of Marx's nice paintings. It exhibits how the newness and lasting curiosity of Marx's conception arises from the truth that, as opposed to the venture of a 'pure' economics, it truly is formulated in options that experience at the same time an fiscal and a political element, neither of those being separable from the opposite. Jacques Bidet conducts an exceptional research of Marx's paintings within the spirit of the heritage of technological know-how, exploring it as a strategy of theoretical improvement. conventional exegesis reads the successive drafts of Capital as though they have been complementary and collectively illuminated each other. actually, like several scientist, Marx in simple terms wrote a brand new model which will right the former one. He begun from principles borrowed from Ricardo and Hegel, and among one draft and the following it truly is attainable to work out those being eradicated and restructured. This labour, additionally, was once by no means totally accomplished. the writer therefore re-assesses Marx's whole approach in its set of constitutive different types: worth, industry, labour-power, sessions, operating type, exploitation, construction, fetishism, ideology. He seeks to pin down the problems that those encountered, and the analytical and important price they nonetheless have this day. Bidet attaches the best value to Marx's order of exposition, which assigns every one suggestion its position within the total approach, and makes the validity of the development depend upon the pertinence of its preliminary presuppositions. this can be really the case with the connection among marketplace mechanism and capitalism - and hence additionally among the industry and socialism.