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Articles • Brazil. J. Polit. Econ. 40 (1) • Jan-Mar 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572020-3023   copy

New starting point(s): Marx, technological revolutions and changes in the centre-periphery divide1 1 A version of this paper was presented at the Conference Capital, 150: Marx’s. Capital today (King’s College, London, 19-20 September 2017). We would like to thank Alex Callinicos, Lucia Pradella and Michel Roberts for the kind invitation to participate in that International Conference. This research is supported by CNPq (Processes 486828/2013-1, 472009/2014-1, 401054/2016-0, and 307787/2018-4). The authors acknowledge the research assistance from Tiago Guedes de Camargo. We thank the International Institute of Social History (IISG), in Amsterdam, curator of the Karl Marx/Friederich Engels Papers (http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/m/10760604.php), for kindly providing access to copies of Notebooks B51, B108, B109, B113, B156 and B162 and for its authorization to use images from those Notebooks. We would like to thank comments and suggestions to previous drafts from Michael Heinrich and Sofia Lalopoulou-Apostolidou in a meeting at Cedeplar-UFMG (29 May 2017), and also from Rolf Hecker, Carl-Erich Vollgraf and Kevin Anderson in a meeting at Cedeplar-UFMG (5 September 2017). We would like to thnk the comments and suggestions from two anonimous referees from Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. The usual disclaimer holds.”

Novo(s) ponto(s) de partida: Marx, revoluções tecnológicas e mudanças na divisão centro-periferia

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents the last book that Marx excerpted in his life: La Physique Moderne, written by Hospitalier and published in 1882. This last Notebook (B156, in the IISG’s archives) contains hints of other issues that he was researching in his last years, especially societies at the periphery. This combination of issues - an emerging technological revolution and societies at the periphery - may contribute to a better understanding of connections between technological revolutions and the centre-periphery divide. Technological revolutions, sources of new starting points, have been shaping and reshaping the structure of that divide, its nature and structure.

KEYWORDS:
Technological revolutions; centre-periphery; metamorphoses of capitalism; Marx

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