Time in Marx: The Categories of Time in Marx’s Capital

This book demonstrates that the basic concepts of the three volumes of Capital come under different categories of time: time of production in the first volume is linear, time of circulation in the second is circular, while in the third volume organic time is the unity of the two. Capitalist relations emerge as a definite organisation of social time that obeys its own intrinsic criteria and operates as an autonomous, social subject. Reading Capital from this perspective, it becomes possible to restore its dialectical (Hegelian) logic - not in order to reveal the real Marx, but as a means to contribute to the understanding of the real, capitalist world with its present-day fetishes, its explosive contradictions and its ever deeper crises.