Through this edited collection, the contributing authors examine the pertinence and actuality of Marx’s general law while analyzing past and present issues in political economy in Latin America and beyond.

This edited collection engages with Marx’s General Law of Capitalist Accumulation, examining the relevance and actuality of Marx’s propositions for the analysis of contemporary capitalism in Latin America and beyond. The contributors offer an original and updated interpretation of Marx while also examining important topics in political economy. The contributors bring critical insights into scholarly debates on imperialism, exploitation, labor, and development.

Part I. Revisiting Marx’s General Law

Chapter 1: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation: A Comprehensive Reading from the Perspective of the Systematic Structure of Capital

Chapter 2: Violence and Crepuscular Capitalism. Structural Dynamics and Superstructural Forms of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation

Chapter 3: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation and a Theory of Labor-Shortage Business Cycles

Chapter 4: The Determination of Wages in the Framework of Capital Accumulation: The Industrial Reserve Army and the Value of Labor-Power

Chapter 5: Labor Precariousness as an Abstract Form of Domination

Part II. Underdevelopment, Imperialism and the Industrial Reserve Army of Labour in Latin America and Beyond

Chapter 6: Marx´s General Law and the Development of Underdevelopment

Chapter 7: Bordering the Surplus Population across the Mediterranean: Imperialism and Unfree Labor

Chapter 8: Marini within its Limits: A Critique of Super-exploitation as a Structural Mechanism of Accumulation in the Periphery

Chapter 9: Global Inequalities, Digital Capitalism, and Marx's General Law of Accumulation

Chapter 10: The Industrial Reserve Army in the 21st Century. An Approach to the Case of Mexico

Chapter 11: Unpaid Housework, Social Reproduction, and Accumulation of Capital: A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence from Mexico