Introducing Marxism : a graphic guide

Content: Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Contents
 The Origins
 The Communist Manifesto
 Brief Life of Marx
 Meeting Engels
 The Exile, Agitator and Writer
 Understanding Marx's Theories
 Three Roots of Marxian Theory
 Hegel's View of History
 The Reality of Ideas
 The Philosopher's Role
 The Dialectic
 The Dialectic in Practice
 The Dialectic in Progress
 Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
 The First Law
 The Second Law
 The Third Law
 The Marxian Dialectic
 A Materialist World
 Modernist Optimism
 Dialectical Materialism
 The Three Stages
 The Productive Forces
 The Productive Relations
 Class Antagonisms. Substructure and SuperstructureA Question of Economics
 Classical British Economics
 What is a Commodity?
 The Means of Production
 The Problem of Profit
 The Production System
 Variable Capital and Labour Exploitation
 Absolute Surplus Value
 Relative Surplus Value
 The Contradiction of Capitalism
 The Prophecy
 Organizing Capitalism's Downfall
 Consciousness of Alienation
 The Nature of Alienation
 Understanding Alienation
 The Fetish Concept
 The Categorical Imperative
 Money Speaks for Us
 Birth of the Communist Party
 Is Marxism really "Scientific"?
 The Evolution of Capitalism. The Long Road to RevolutionThe First International
 The Paris Commune, 1871
 End of the International
 Towards the Second International
 The Second International Membership
 Weaknesses of the Second International
 The Phase of Economism
 Russian Marxism
 Looking Ahead
 Russia's Revolutionary History
 Lenin's Bolshevik Faction
 Trotsky's Permanent Revolution
 Lenin's Revolutionary Marxism
 The Age of Imperialism
 A New Theory of International Revolution
 Experience of Imperialism at War
 The Two Revolutions of 1917
 The October Revolution
 The Vanguard Communist Party. The Reality of Communist ControlThe Struggle for Leadership
 Stalin's Dictatorship
 Why Did It "Go Wrong"?
 Democracy Aborted
 Lenin's Legacy
 The Conditions of Russia
 The Soviet Bloc
 Socialism in One Country
 Stalin's Conception of Marxism
 The Cold War
 Third World Marxism
 The Failure of Marxism
 Gramsci Confronts Fascism
 Ideology and Hegemony
 Culture, Ideology and Hegemony
 Control of Hegemony
 Revolution and Democratic Society
 The Frankfurt School
 Critical Theory in Dark Times
 Critical Theory of the Media
 Social Research for Revolution
 The Hegemonic Role of Culture. Althusser's Anti-HumanismThe Shift to Postmodernism
 The Turning-Point in Marxism
 "Is Anyone There?"
 In a Post-Industrial Era
 Seeing the Patterns
 The End of History
 Conflicts are in Progress
 Deconstructing the End
 Against "Truth Claims"
 The Spirit of the Letter
 Raising Marx's Ghost
 Marxism as an Ethical Programme
 Defining Post-Marxism
 By Way of Difference
 The Dance of Différance
 Post-Marxist Antagonisms
 Antagonisms are Situated
 The State and Civil Society
 Natural "Agonistic Pluralism"
 Where do we end?
 Key Words in This Text
 Further Reading
 About the Author
 Index.