The Negative of Capital

Jorge Grespan, studied Economics and History at the Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil, and is Professor of Theory of History since 1985 at the same university. He has published many articles, books, and book chapters in Portuguese and Spanish. In English he published “About the Beginning and End of Capitalism”, in Marx's Capital. An Unfinishable Project?, Leiden, Brill, 2018, and “The renewal of Marxist Historiography through the Study of Enslavement. The Case of Brazil”, in What is Left of Marxism, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020.

Preface to the English edition

Acknowledgements



Introduction

 1 The Double Face of Capital

 2 Content of the Crisis

 3 Crisis and Modality



1 The World of Commodity Producers

 1 The Social Division of Labour

 2 Money and Crisis



2 The Constitution of Capital

 1 From Simple Circulation to Capital

 2 The Subjectivity of Capital

 3 The Measureless Nature of Crisis



3 The Figures of Reproduction

 1 The Circuits of Capital

 2 The Reproduction of Social Capital



4 Capital as a Totality

 1 Competition and Profit

 2 The Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit

 3 Periodical Overaccumulation



Conclusions

 1 The Time of Crisis

 2 The Actual Crisis

 3 The Modalities of Crisis

 4 The Power of Fetishism



Postface

 1 Commercial Capital and its Crises

 2 Interest-Bearing Capital and its Crises



Bibliography

Index