Rethinking the central categories of Marx's work, this study provides a critical analysis of his political and theoretical development. The sweep of the analysis aims to integrate the paradigm of the spatialization of
time with that of the temporalization of space, showing how capital places varied temporalities into hierarchies-valuing certain conceptions of time over others at different points in its history-thereby
constantly producing and reproducing new forms of class struggle. If modern global capitalism is to be opposed effectively, Tomba argues that we must adequately analyze the plurality of temporal layers
that are combined and come into conflict in the violently unifying historical dimension of modernity.

It is [Western Marxism] that commands the full attention of Massimilliano Tomba’s timely and often brilliantly suggestive and informed reading of how Marxism lost its way and failed to account for the changes that Marx introduced in the 1860s and 1870s, producing Capital as a massive conceptualization of capitalism’s system of time accountancy that finds in the world market the instrument to synchronize the multiple temporalities and different forms of exploitation embodied in commodities, in order to secure greater surplus value.
— Harry Harootunian, Radical Philosophy