Contents

Introduction by Paul Le Blanc

The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism

Translator’s Note on Terminology

Foreword

SECTION I: THE PROBLEM OF REPRODUCTION

Chapter 1. The Object Under Investigation

Chapter 2. Analysis of the Process of Reproduction in Quesnay and Adam Smith

Chapter 3. The Critique of Smith’s Analysis

Chapter 4. Marx’s Schema of Simple Reproduction

Chapter 5. The Circulation of Money

Chapter 6. Expanded Reproduction

Chapter 7. Analysis of Marx’s Schema of Expanded Reproduction

Chapter 8. Marx’s Attempts to Solve the Problem

Chapter 9. The Problem from the Standpoint of the Circulation Process

SECTION II: HISTORICAL EXPOSITION OF THE PROBLEM

First Round—The Controversy Between Sismondi/Malthus and Say/Ricardo/McCulloch

Chapter 10. Sismondi’s Theory of Reproduction

Chapter 11. McCulloch vs. Sismondi

Chapter 12. Ricardo vs. Sismondi

Chapter 13. Say vs. Sismondi

Chapter 14. Malthus

Second Round—The Controversy Between Rodbertus and von Kirchmann

Chapter 15. von Kirchmann’s Theory of Reproduction

Chapter 16. Rodbertus’s Critique of the Classical School

Chapter 17. Rodbertus’s Analysis of Reproduction

Third Round—Struve/Bulgakov/Tugan-Baranovsky vs. Vorontsov/Danielson

Chapter 18. A New Version of the Problem

Chapter 19. Vorontsov and His “Surplus”

Chapter 20. Danielson

Chapter 21. Struve’s “Third Parties” and “Three World Empires”

Chapter 22. Bulgakov and His Extension of Marx’s Analysis

Chapter 23. Tugan-Baranovsky’s “Disproportionality”

Chapter 24. The Outcome of Russian “Legal Marxism”

SECTION III: THE HISTORICAL CONDITIONS OF ACCUMULATION

Chapter 25. Contradictions Within the Schema of Expanded Reproduction

Chapter 26. The Reproduction of Capital and Its Milieu

Chapter 27. The Struggle Against the Natural Economy

Chapter 28. The Introduction of the Commodity Economy

Chapter 29. The Struggle Against the Peasant Economy

Chapter 30. International Credit

Chapter 31. Protective Tariffs and Accumulation

Chapter 32. Militarism in the Sphere of Capital Accumulation

The Accumulation of Capital, Or, What the Epigones Have Made Out of Marx’s Theory—An Anti-Critique

Translator’s Note on Terminology

Part I

Part II

The Second and Third Volumes of Capital

Notes

A Glossary of Personal Names

Index