This is an article on the economic policy in Italy today, written in a left-wing liberal perspective. It deals with the present logic of reproduction of capital, aimed at maximizing the extraction and private appropriation of surplus-value.

This is an analysis of Claudio Napoleoni's thought on capitalism, seen as a contradictory economic system which tends to exalt and to compress the human capacity of selfdetermination. The attention of Napoleoni for capitalism has focused on the purpose to explain its intrinsically oppressive...