[Routledge Revivals 01] • Marx's 'Capital' (Routledge Revivals) by Pilling, Geoffrey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Acknowledgments List of abbreviations 1 • Introduction 2 • Marx’s critique of classical economics1

The ahistorical nature of political economy The main stages in the history of political economy Ricardo’s achievement The structure of Marx’s work The philosophy of empiricism The problem of value and profit6 Formal logic and the ‘exceptions’ to the law of value Dialectics and formal logic Marx’s treatment of labour Abstract labour A ‘measure’ of value Capital and surplus value The class struggle

3 • The Concepts of Capital

The objectivity of concepts Form and content of knowledge Empiricism and the empirical Empiricism and the commodity Abstract identity Capital and the productive forces Use-value and value Capital in general The example of imperialism A recent writer on ‘capital in general’ The reality of abstractions The value concept The concept of capital

4 • The significance of the opening chapters

The development of Marx’s investigation The place of the opening chapters Engels on Marx’s method Althusser and the early chapters of Capital The commodity and use-value The formation of money The elementary form of value The development of the value-form

5 • Some aspects of Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism

Fetishism and social being Disappearance of fetishism Fetishism as illusion The ideality of value Fetishism and economic crisis The price of production and fetishism The functions of money Ricardo’s notion of money

Notes Bibliography

1 Works by Marx 2 Works by Engels 3 Works by Marx and Engels 4 Works by other authors

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