Vogelfrei: Marx and the Worker in Exile

This essay argues that Karl Marx can be viewed as a theorist of modern exile if we bring together his phenomenological approach to the origins of capitalism in the Grundrisse with his historical materialist insights into "original accumulation" in Capital, Volume 1. Viewing exile in broade...

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Published inThe Germanic review Vol. 98; no. 3; pp. 264 - 280
Main Author Linden, Ari
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Routledge 03.07.2023
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Capitalism
ecosocialism
Employees
Essays
Exile
Marx
Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Modernism
nature
original accumulation
Political history
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ISSN0016-8890
1930-6962
DOI10.1080/00168890.2023.2232515

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Summary:This essay argues that Karl Marx can be viewed as a theorist of modern exile if we bring together his phenomenological approach to the origins of capitalism in the Grundrisse with his historical materialist insights into "original accumulation" in Capital, Volume 1. Viewing exile in broader, more structural terms-that is, as a condition wherein the worker is perpetually excluded from both "nature" and capitalist society-this essay further offers a theoretical framework for interrogating Marx's more familiar if more fraught notions of "alienation" and "dispossession." Finally, the essay argues that the implicit discourse of exile in Marx points to his inchoate diagnosis of two central and competing "fantasies" of modern political life: that of the romantic-reactionary and that of the reflexive capitalist subject.
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ISSN:0016-8890
1930-6962
DOI:10.1080/00168890.2023.2232515