Fredric Jameson on the Reserve Army

Abstract

In the opening pages of The Limits to Capital, published in 1984, David Harvey jokes that everyone who reads Marx's Capital seems bound to write a book about it. In 2012, we might well ask: Just one? Last year, many of the long-standing academic Marxists unleashed new introductory works, including Terry Eagleton, David Harvey, Eric Hobsbawm, and, unsurprisingly, Fredric Jameson. In Representing Capital, Jameson has written the best of the bunch: a surprising, energetic, and concise representation of the "totality" of capital.

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