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David Harvey tackles Marxs notebooks that have spawned wideranging and raging controversies

When leading scholar of Marx Roman Rosdolsky first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marxs Grundrissehis preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capitalin the 1950s in New York Public Library he recognized it as a work of fundamental importance but declared its unusual form and obscure manner of expression made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers

David Harveys Companion to Marxs Grundrisse builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of Capital in a way that will reach as wide an audience as possible Marxs stated ambition for this text is to reveal the exact development of the concept of capital as the fundamental concept of modern economics just as capital itself is the foundation of bourgeois society

While respecting Marxs desire to bring out all the contradictions of bourgeois production as well as the boundary where it drives beyond itself David Harvey also pithily illustrates the relevance of Marxs text to understanding the troubled state of contemporary capitalism