An Introduction to the Essays on Capital Subsystems

The latter, undoubtedly, cries out for a long due updating; it is the mission of CSST to respond to such exigency, which it can only accomplish by furthering the immanent critique initiated by Karl Marx. It is a fact, however, that a third party is involved in this mission, besides CSST and Political Economy. For, in today’s common acceptation, rather than the older and wiser Political Economy, it is the shallow Economics that holds the place of honor reserved to the official exponent of economic science. While, one decade after another, the long neglected science turned increasingly slovenly and unpalatable, its inflated vicar swelled, and still does. It is certainly one of the greatest intellectual anachronisms of our epoch that even now it depicts its own economic and social life on such a narrow canvass.