Preliminary communication

“COMMODITY IN GENERAL” AND THE GLOBALIZING MODERN TOTALITARIANISMS

Zorka Zović-Svoboda orcid.org/0000-0001-6605-7462 ; Zorka Zović-Svoboda, Siget 18C, 10020 Zagreb

Abstract

The author reflects on Dag Strpić’s book Karl Marx and the Political Economy
of Modernity, in particular on the part in which Strpić laid out the scientific
results of his research into the applicability of Marx’s critique of political
economy from the viewpoint of commodity production on the theoretical
level of “capital in general”. Furthermore, she draws attention to Strpić’s discussion
of the causes of appearance of various forms of globalizing modern
totalitarianisms (political and corporate), which can also be recognized in the
contemporary neo-liberal order. This is so in spite of the fact that the latter is
legitimized theoretically and ideologically as liberal, and that, in principle, it
has retained its form of modern development.

Keywords

“commodity in general”; Marx’s critique of political economy; political economy; crisis; modern totalitarianisms

Hrčak ID:

66495

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/66495

Publication date:

8.4.2011.

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