Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Cover......Page 1
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Prologue: The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around......Page 11
Introduction: On Contradiction......Page 17
Part One: The Foundational Contradictions......Page 29
Contradiction 1 Use Value and Exchange Value......Page 31
Contradiction 2 The Social Value of Labour and Its Representation by Money......Page 41
Contradiction 3 Private Property and the Capitalist State......Page 54
Contradiction 4 Private Appropriation and Common Wealth......Page 69
Contradiction 5 Capital and Labour......Page 78
Contradiction 6 Capital as Process or Thing?......Page 86
Contradiction 7 The Contradictory Unity of Production and Realisation......Page 95
Part Two: The Moving Contradictions......Page 103
Contradiction 8 Technology, Work and Human Disposability......Page 107
Contradiction 9 Divisions of Labour......Page 128
Contradiction 10 Monopoly and Competition: Centralisation and Decentralisation......Page 147
Contradiction 11 Uneven Geographical Developments and the Production of Space......Page 162
Contradiction 12 Disparities of Income and Wealth......Page 180
Contradiction 13 Social Reproduction......Page 198
Contradiction 14 Freedom and Domination......Page 215
Part Three: The Dangerous Contradictions......Page 233
Contradiction 15 Endless Compound Growth......Page 238
Contradiction 16 Capital’s Relation to Nature......Page 262
Contradiction 17 The Revolt of Human Nature: Universal Alienation......Page 280
Conclusion: Prospects for a Happy but Contested Future: The Promise of Revolutionary Humanism......Page 298
Epilogue: Ideas for Political Praxis......Page 310
Notes......Page 314
Bibliography and Further Reading......Page 324
Index......Page 330