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A Treatise on the Capitalist Society: Critiquing Marx’s Economic and Political Theory

This book explains the formation and evolution of the capitalist society from the perspective of language and media. It argues that linguistic presentations given by using language serve as a basis for humans to define private property rights, engage in market exchange, establish the wage labor system, exploit science and technology in production, and organize socialized production. It clarifies the reason for the distinction between the rich and the poor in a capitalist society, arguing against Marx’s theory of surplus value, and asserts that the wage labor system is a cooperative system. It also discusses the relations of social classes and the relations between democracy and dictatorship, as well as the origin of the state from the perspective of language and media. The book will help its readership to deepen their understanding of capitalism.


Xing Yu is a political scientist. He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts from Sichuan Foreign Languages Institute in Chongqing, China in 1982 and obtained a Master’s Degree of Law from Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 1985. He worked as an assistant professor at Hangzhou University, China, from 1985 to 1990, and as an assistant professor from 1990 to 1993 and as an associate professor from 1993 to 1996 at Nanjing University, China. He is also the author of Language and State: An Inquiry into the Progress of Civilization, Second Edition (2021), and Language and State: A Theory of the Progress of Civilization, Second Edition (2022).

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ISBN: 1-5275-5304-3

ISBN13: 978-1-5275-5304-0

Release Date: 8th November 2023

Pages: 211

Price: £70.99

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