Karl Marx by Wood, Allen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Halftitle Title Copyright Contents Preface to the Second Edition Biographical Sketch Introduction PART ONE Alienation

1. The Concept of Alienation

1 The young Marx’s ‘theory’ of alienation 2 What is ‘alienation’? 3 Alienation and false consciousness 4 Alienation and practice

2. The Human Essence

1 The species being 2 Species consciousness and alienation 3 Self-actualization 4 Human essential powers

3. Human Production

1 Conscious life activity 2 Labor as self-affirmation 3 Objectification and appropriation

4. Alienation and Capitalism

1 The capitalist division of labor 2 Capitalism and freedom 3 Assessing Marx on capitalist alienation

PART TWO Historical Materialism

5. Production and Society

1 ‘Economic determinism’ 2 Productive powers, production relations 3 A ‘technological’ theory of history? 4 Productive powers and historical development

6. Classes

1 Social relations, property relations 2 History and social classes 3 Class interests 4 Class struggles

7. Materialist Explanations

1 Historical materialism as an empirical hypothesis 2 Materialist explanations are teleological 3 Is Marx a historical teleologist?

8. Materialism, Agency and Consciousness

1 Is Marx a determinist? 2 Three senses of ‘ideology’ 3 Ideology and science

PART THREE Marxism and Morality

9. Marx on Right and Justice

1 Does Marxism have moral foundations? 2 Marx’s concept of justice 3 Capitalism and commodity exchange 4 Capital exploits justly

10. Morality as Ideology

1 The social function of morality 2 Marxism and utilitarianism 3 Is Marx an immoralist? 4 Why should a Marxist be moral? 5 Marx’s attitude toward morality, and our attitude

PART FOUR Philosophical Materialism

11. Materialist Naturalism

1 What is materialism? 2 Marx’s atheism 3 The essentiality of humanity and nature

12. Materialist Realism

1 Knowledge and practice 2 The contemplative attitude 3 Is Marx an idealist?

PART FIVE The Dialectical Method

13. The Hegelian Dialectic

1 Hegel’s vision of reality 2 Organic development or dialectic 3 Dialectic and formal logic

14. The Marxian Dialectic

1 The ‘rational kernel’ in the ‘mystical shell’ 2 ‘Inverting’ Hegel 3 Reproducing the concrete in thought

15. Dialectic in Capital

1 The structure of ‘Capital’ 2 Values and production prices 3 The law of value 4 Value and exploitation

16. Capitalist Exploitation

1 What is exploitation? 2 The vulnerability of labor to capital 3 Capitalist apologetics about exploitation 4 What is bad about capitalist exploitation? 5 How to think about capitalist exploitation

Concluding Remark Notes Some Further Reading Index