Staging Power: Marx, Hobbes and the Personification of Capital |
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Authors: | Mark Neocleous |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Politics, American Studies and History, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK |
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Abstract: | This article raises questions about the nature and status of the persona behind which contemporary capital operates. It does so by developing Marx's comments on personification in a very different
direction to that intended by him, taking them, via Hobbes, into the deeper recesses of company law. The argument that develops
is that modern law has facilitated the mechanism by which capital dominates civil society, an argument illustrated through
the veil of the corporate persona worn by capital. The rhetorical trope around which the argument is organized is the stage of power; the barely-mentioned
backdrop is the possibility of real resistance to corporate power; the broader intention is to help develop the Marxist theory
of law.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | company law corporate power corporation Hobbes Marx person personification |
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