Author: Krätke, Michael R.

Source: Historical Materialism, Volume 15, Number 1, 2007 , pp. 109-143(35)

Publisher: BRILL

Abstract:

Mandel's Late Capitalism is the last large-scale effort to make sense of the development of capitalism since 1945 that is linked to the tradition of classical Marxism. The book provides an excellent case to study the difficulties of any such enterprise to come to grips with the historical developments of capitalism at large or with any of its particular phases or epochs. The difficulties that Mandel tries to surmount in order to reintegrate the theory and history of modern capitalism are, however, closely linked to ambiguities already present in Marx's original general theory of capitalism.

Keywords: CAPITALISM; HISTORY; THEORY; METHOD

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920607X171618

Affiliations: 1: Professor of Political Economy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Fellow of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Publication date: 2007-03-01

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