Invisible Leviathan by Murray E. G. Smith - 9781642590456

Invisible LeviathanMarx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism\nAuthor(s): Murray E. G. Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Haymarket Books, United States\nImprint: Haymarket Books\nISBN-13: 9781642590456, 978-1642590456\nSynopsis\nIn this updated and expanded edition of Invisible Leviathan, Murray [url] Smith critically explores and makes significant contributions to the debate surrounding Karl Marx's 'capitalist law of value' and its corollary, the law of the falling rate of profit. A powerful case is presented that capitalism has exhausted its potential to contribute to human progress. Humanity confronts a fateful choice: to allow this obsolescent systemwhich necessarily measures 'wealth' in terms of 'abstract social labour' and money profitto destroy human civilisation; or to make the leap toward a global, egalitarian-socialist society in which the satisfaction of human need is the starting-point and the all-round development of each and every human individual the goal of .