Marx's Theory of Crisis

Simon Clarke......Page 1
Political Economy and the Necessity of Crisis......Page 5
Marxist Theories of Crisis......Page 7
The Impasse of Contemporary Marxism......Page 9
Marx and the Marxist Theory of Crisis......Page 10
The Theory of Crisis in the Second International......Page 13
The Marxist Heritage: Engels\'s Theory of Crisis......Page 15
Kautsky and the Historical Tendencies of Capitalist Accumulation......Page 18
Kautsky\'s Theory of Secular Overproduction......Page 20
Kautsky\'s Theory of Crisis......Page 21
Bernstein\'s Challenge –- Reform or Revolution......Page 24
Tugan-Baranowsky and the Necessity of Crisis......Page 26
Hilferding and the Disproportionality Theory of Crisis......Page 30
Competition and the investment cycle......Page 32
The investment cycle and the crisis......Page 34
Stabilisation and the necessity of crisis......Page 37
Rosa Luxemburg\'s Underconsumptionist Theory of Crisis......Page 40
Crises Associated with the Falling Rate of Profit......Page 43
Class struggle and capitalist crisis......Page 47
Crisis and the law of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall......Page 48
Class Struggle and the Rate of Profit......Page 52
Is There a Marxist Theory of Crisis?......Page 53
Engels\'s Theory of Crisis......Page 56
Marx\'s Early Development of Engels\'s Analysis......Page 59
The Dynamics of Capitalist Production and the Tendency to Crisis......Page 61
The Theory of Crisis in the Communist Manifesto......Page 65
The Early Theory of Overproduction and Crisis......Page 66
The Politics and Theory of Crisis after the 1848 Revolutions......Page 68
The Historical Development of Capitalist Crises......Page 69
Money, Credit and Crisis in the Notebooks of 1851......Page 72
The Theory of Crisis in 1853......Page 78
Revolutionary Hopes and the Crisis of 1857......Page 80
Production and Circulation......Page 85
Money, Crisis and Currency Reform......Page 87
The Money Form and the Possibility of Crisis......Page 89
The Transition from Money to Capital......Page 90
The Self-Expansion of Capital and Overproduction......Page 91
Production and Realisation......Page 93
Marx\'s Theory of Crisis: One Theory or Three?......Page 95
Disproportionate Production and General Overproduction......Page 96
Competition and Disproportionality......Page 98
Underconsumption and the Tendency to Crisis......Page 100
Disproportionality and the Valorisation of Capital......Page 104
The tendency for the composition of capital to rise......Page 110
The composition of capital and the formation of a relative surplus population......Page 111
The composition of capital and the tendency for the rate of profit to fall......Page 112
The tendency for the tate of profit to fall and the tendency to crisis......Page 113
The Dynamics of Capitalism and the Tendency to Crisis......Page 116
The Methodology of the Grundrisse and the Theory of Crisis......Page 119
Underconsumption Theories: Malthus and Sismondi......Page 124
The production of surplus value and the possibility of crisis......Page 129
Disproportionality and general overproduction......Page 131
The tendency to crisis and the critique of political economy......Page 132
The contradictions of capital and the possibility of crisis......Page 134
Money, credit and the possibility of crisis......Page 136
Capitalist production and the possibility of crisis......Page 137
Capitalist Reproduction, Disproportionality and Crisis......Page 138
The Falling Rate of Profit and the Tendency to Crisis......Page 142
The Critique of Political Economy and the Falling Rate of Profit......Page 143
Is There a Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall?......Page 146
The tendency for the composition of capital to rise......Page 147
The rate of exploitation and the rate of profit......Page 148
The Falling Rate of Profit and Relative Surplus Population......Page 150
The Concentration of Capital, the Rate of Profit and Crisis......Page 153
The mass of profit, the rate of profit and the tendency to crisis......Page 156
The rate of profit, crisis and the depreciation of capital......Page 158
The falling rate of profit and the absolute overaccumulation of capital......Page 160
Overaccumulation and crisis......Page 161
What is the significance of FROP?......Page 164
The Theory of Crisis in Capital......Page 167
Politics and the Theory of Crisis......Page 168
The Theory of Crisis in the First Volume of Capital......Page 169
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation......Page 170
Labour shortage, wages and crisis......Page 171
Crises and the historical tendency of capitalist accumulation......Page 173
The Necessity of Crisis and the Periodicity of the Cycle......Page 176
Fixed Capital and the Periodicity of the Cycle......Page 177
Fixed Capital and the Problem of Reproduction......Page 182
Credit and the Investment Cycle......Page 185
Conclusion......Page 189
Bibliography......Page 195