With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and Foucauldian criticisms of capitalist modernity.For Marx, the intersection between capital and the market is crucial, while for Foucault, the organizational aspects of capital are what really matter. According to Marx, the ruling class is identified with property; with Foucault, it is t...

Integrado por cuatro textos hasta ahora inéditos en español y cedidos por el propio autor, en este libro Jacques Bidet nos presenta el resultado de más de tres décadas de un riguroso trabajo intelectual en el que ha intentado actualizar la teoría de Marx para hacer frente a los retos de nuestro tiempo. Bidet defiende aquí que El Capital no sólo ofrece un análisis del modo de producción capitalista, sino el esbozo de una teoría de la modernidad que no obstante es preciso completar,...

Originally published in French, this English edition translated by Jacques Bidet offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary reading of Capital, challenging dominant mainstream interpretations that overlook Marx’s critique of capitalist society. Centring on the chapter “The Working Day,” the book reveals Marx’s analysis of labour exploitation as a biopolitical struggle between capital and living labour. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, it reframes wage labour as a conflic...

In Can Common People Govern?, the renowned French social theorist, philosopher, and historian Jacques Bidet offers a theoretical and political exploration of political parties, movements, and uprisings as forms of popular political organization. He highlights the contradictions of the party-form and the movement-form through a critical analysis of Lenin, Xi Jinping, Gramsci, Althusser, and the theorists of left-wing populism, Laclau and Mouffe. Popular political organization, he a...

This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one and the same thing.The approach is inspired by Marx’s theory, as revisited through Bourdieu and Foucault, Rawls and Habermas, and Ostrom and Wallerstein. Based on a new concept, that of “m...

In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting in an analysis encompassing ...