Kajian Kritis Das Kapital Karl Marx

by Anthony Brewer

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[Muhammad Respati · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lumayan baik dalam memberi gambaran bagaimana isi dari Das Kapital. Namun sayangnya, terjemahannya agak ngawur sehingga terkadang saya kesulitan untuk memahaminya. Selain itu, ada teman saya yang merekomendasikan buku serupa yang ditulis oleh David Harvey, yang katanya lebih baik daripada buku ini.

[JP · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am stunned to learn that this... this "rigid scientific investigation" is the foundational idea that so dramatically affected recent world history. Marx makes a series of illogical leaps to build his theory of labor and capital, while claiming to follow the same scientific process used in chemistry and physics. As is frequently done in economic writing, he begins with one argument: "For simplicity's sake we shall henceforth account every kind of labour to be unskilled, simple labour; by this we do no more than save ourselves the trouble of making the reduction." [return][return]But he never comes back to show how the real-world violation of that assumption affects the relative market for each class of labor. He does a moderately successful job of showing the economics of "value add" but then creates another logical gap in the process of allowing free market exchange for each laborer's portion. (To summarize the argument, someone gets more for something and it clearly isn't the laborer.) It was interesting to see the reference to Robinson Crusoe (a frequent event in economics.) The closest he comes to that dangerous border of reality is his admission that compulsory labor is less productive. That is the point where an enterprising student could ask "because of lack of incentive?" In his own chapter on "contradictions" he himself makes a critical mathematical error in showing who gets the surplus value from exchange. Again, a whole argument is built on this to show the disparity that faces the worker. He bases the low living wage provided to workers as being similar to the ancient societies that bought from provinces with money taxed from them. In "The Labour Process" he references that the "way to Hell is paved with good intentions." He also quotes Benjamin Franklin. Summary: Due to monopoly power, the capitalist benefits from labor's surplus value without contributing anything to the process. Asserted but not proven.

[Hakam N · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Kristoporus Primeloka · Rating 1 out of 5]

Agak susah mencerna buku ini jika mendapat terbitan dari Narasi dan pustaka promethea karena terjemahan dan editing yang (maaf) buruk (bahkan kejanggalan dalam pemenggalan kalimat dan penggunaan tanda baca koma dan titik).