Marx Today: Selected Works and Recent Debates

Coverpage......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
I. The Historical Origins of Capitalism......Page 12
II. The Hidden Dynamic of Capitalism......Page 13
III. The Political Trajectory of Capitalism......Page 19
IV. Problems with Marx’s Theory......Page 22
V. Marxism and Contemporary Capitalism......Page 31
VI. Conclusion......Page 33
Part I......Page 44
1 Manifesto of the Communist Party......Page 46
Preface to the 1888 English Edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party......Page 48
I. Bourgeois and Proletarians......Page 52
II. Proletarians and Communists......Page 60
III. Socialist and Communist Literature......Page 66
IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties......Page 72
2 “Speech on Free Trade,” with Engels’s Preface of 1888......Page 74
Protection and Free Trade Preface to the Pamphlet: Karl Marx, Speech on the Question of Free Trade......Page 76
Speech on the Question of Free Trade Delivered to the Democratic Association of Brussels at Its Public Meeting of January 9, 1848......Page 88
3 “Preface” to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy......Page 98
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy......Page 100
4 Value, Price and Profit......Page 104
Marx to Engels in Manchester......Page 106
[Value, Price and Profit]......Page 108
5) [Wages and Prices]......Page 109
6) [Value and Labour]......Page 111
7) Labouring Power......Page 116
8) Production of Surplus-Value......Page 118
9) Value of Labour......Page 119
10) Profit is Made by Selling A Commodity at its Value......Page 120
11) The Different Parts into which Surplus-Value is Decomposed......Page 121
12) General Relation of Profits, Wages and Prices......Page 123
13) Main Cases of Attempts at Raising Wages or Resisting Their Fall......Page 124
14) The Struggle between Capital and Labour and Its Results......Page 128
5 Selection from The Civil War in France......Page 132
Introduction [To Karl Marx’s The Civil War In France]......Page 134
III......Page 144
6 Critique of the Gotha Programme......Page 154
I......Page 159
II......Page 166
III......Page 167
[IV]......Page 168
Sources of Included Works......Page 172
Part II......Page 174
Recent Marxian Debates......Page 176
Notes on Authors of Articles......Page 177
7 Why Socialism?......Page 180
8 Where Do Postmodernists Come From?......Page 186
9 Monopoly-Finance Capital and the Paradox of Accumulation......Page 194
Stages of Accumulation......Page 196
Monopoly-Finance Capital and the Crisis......Page 201
The System’s No-Exit Strategy......Page 206
10 The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union......Page 210
I. Marxism and the Woman Question......Page 211
II. Radical Feminism and Patriarchy......Page 218
III. The Partnership of Patriarchy and Capital......Page 222
IV. Toward a More Progressive Union......Page 229
11 Marx and the Environment......Page 238
12 Revolutionizing Spirituality: Reflections on Marxism and Religion......Page 250
Suggested Further Reading......Page 266
Index......Page 268