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A review by niconorico
Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital by William Clare Roberts
5.0
"As a new Virgil, Marx tries to guide his readers along the internal connections binding exchange to exploitation, contracts to conquest, prices to poverty, development to despotism. His hope is that a pilgrim with many heads and many hands will follow him, a new collective Dante, whose poetry will constitute a new Republic beyond the Empire of capital."
An analysis of the Republican discourse Marx was engaged in with his writings, and the influence of Dante's Inferno on the structuring of Capital. The author is too modest in making his argument. Frankly, deciding whether these arguments are 'right' or 'wrong' misses the point of discourse analysis. Marx and Engels are inseparable from the discourses they were engaged with, that these discourses manifest in their literary works is a matter of course. The value of this work—contrary to the author's narrower, modest intent—is towards materializing Marx and Engels from the social processes that produced them.
An analysis of the Republican discourse Marx was engaged in with his writings, and the influence of Dante's Inferno on the structuring of Capital. The author is too modest in making his argument. Frankly, deciding whether these arguments are 'right' or 'wrong' misses the point of discourse analysis. Marx and Engels are inseparable from the discourses they were engaged with, that these discourses manifest in their literary works is a matter of course. The value of this work—contrary to the author's narrower, modest intent—is towards materializing Marx and Engels from the social processes that produced them.