RUPTURING  THE DIALECTIC 
The Struggle against Work, Money, and Financialization
Harry Cleaver 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface 1
Introduction 15

PART I:
On the Usefulness of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value 29
Why and How Economists Got Rid of the Labor Theory of Value 31
Why and How Some Marxists Abandoned the Labor Theory of Value 39
The Substance of Value: Abstract Labor or Work as Social Control 71
Can Value be Measured? 87
Exchange and Money as the Form of Value 107

PART II:
Decoding Finance, Financial Crisis, and Financialization 143
Decoding Finance and Financial Crisis 145
Decoding Financialization 181

PART III:
Potential Strategies and Tactics for Rupturing the Dialectics of Money 227
Reforms and Revolution 235
Our Use of Money 243
Restricting the Need for Money 255

Conclusion 265

Bibliography 291

Index 309