Ripensare il capitalismo. Introduzione

Abstract

The theme of capitalism is crucial for understanding today’s situation, with its elements of continuity and discontinuity with the past. The introduction to the monographic section Rethinking Capitalism, which includes both articles devoted mainly to contemporary theories on capitalism and articles focusing on a reading of contemporary capitalism, outlines assumptions and aspects of the problem, from a critical perspective and on the basis of an interweaving of economic, social and political factors. In the first part, after a historical-conceptual framework of the term “capitalism,” the importance of the Marxian analysis of the capitalist mode of production is highlighted, while in the second part some distinctive features of contemporary capitalism are indicated.