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Tomba, Massimiliano Accumulation and time: Marx’s historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital 2013 Article On Marx on Machines Machines, Marx, Marx Machine, Technology, Capitalism, History, Historical Temporality, Anthropology, Eurocentrism, European Context, Accumulation, Colonialism, Violence, Subsumption, Pre-Capitalism, Historical Materialism, Historiography
Citation Tomba, Massimiliano 2013 Article Capital & Class Machines Marx Marx Machine Technology Capitalism History Historical Temporality Anthropology Eurocentrism European Context Accumulation Colonialism Violence Subsumption Pre-Capitalism Historical Materialism Historiography On Marx on Machines

"Accumulation and time: Marx’s historiography from the Grundrisse to Capital"

by Tomba, Massimiliano (2013)

Abstract

This article investigates the way in which Marx combines different historiographical approaches in order to draft the possibility for both new forms of social relationship and a new anthropology. The classic unilinear and historicist paradigm and its idea of pre-modern, pre-capitalist and pre-political social forms does not help in understanding the interaction of different temporalities and the combination of formal and real subsumptions. The representation of ongoing accumulation requires different temporalities, which conflict and intertwine with one another.

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Machines, Marx, Marx Machine, Technology, Capitalism, History, Historical Temporality, Anthropology, Eurocentrism, European Context, Accumulation, Colonialism, Violence, Subsumption, Pre-Capitalism, Historical Materialism, Historiography

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On Marx on Machines

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