Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
1 Introduction
1 The Political Context
2 The Theoretical Context
3 Overview
2 Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto: Class Relations, Global Capitalism, Workers’ Conditions and Revolutionary Politics
1 Class Relations and the State across Class Societies
2 Capitalist Economic System and World Market
3 Capitalism, Culture and the State
4 Workers’ Experience of Exploitation and Its Effects
5 Workers’ Struggle within and against Capitalism
6 Conclusion
3 Marx’s Introduction to Grundrisse: Primacy of Production over Distribution, Exchange and Consumption
1 Production as a Moment of the Economic Realm
2 Distribution, Exchange and Consumption as Moments of the Economic Realm
3 Production’s Primacy over Other Moments of the Economic Realm
4 Implications of the Primacy of Production for Contemporary Debates in Political Economy
5 Conclusion
4 Marx’s Introduction to Grundrisse: the Relation of the Economic Realm to the Political and the Cultural Realms
1 Conception of the Producing Individual in Relation to Society
2 The Relation of the Economic to the Political
3 The Relation of the Economic to the Cultural
4 Conclusion
5 Marx’s 1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Fettering of Productive Forces by Social Relations, and Questions of Labour and Nature
1 Marx (and Engels) on Fettering of Productive Forces by Production Relations
2 Existing Interpretations of Marx’s Concept of Fettering
3 A Partial Critique of Existing Interpretations of Marx’s Concept of Fettering
4 Towards an Integrative Perspective on Fettering for Today’s World
5 Conclusion
6 Marx’s Capital Volume 1: Relations of Property, Commodity and Value, and the State
1 Property Relations of Class Society, and the State
2 Property Relations of Capitalist Class Society, and the State
3 Capitalist Commodity and Value Relations, and the State
4 Conclusion
7 Marx’s Capital Volume 1: Capital Circuit, Capitalist Accumulation, and the State
1 The M–C (MP + LP) and the C′–M′ Phases of the Capital Circuit, and the State
2 The ‘P’ Phase of Capital Circuit, and the State
3 The Crisis-Ridden Capitalist Accumulation and the State
4 Conclusion
8 Marx’s Capital Volume 1: Labour Circuit, Class Struggle, Economic Reforms, and the State
1 The Labour Circuit (C–M–C′–R–C) and the State’s Pro-worker Interventions
2 Driving Forces behind the State’s Pro-worker Measures
3 Limits to State’s Pro-worker Interventions, and Why?
4 Conclusion
9 Lenin’s Development of Capitalism in Russia and Other Economic Writings: Commodity Production, Class Differentiation, Capitalism, and Imperialism
1 What Is Political Economy, and How to Study It?
2 Commodity Production and Class Differentiation
3 Capitalism as the Highest Form of Commodity Production, and Its Social and Spatial Forms and Effects
4 Capitalism as a Transient Progressive Social Form Production
5 Capitalist (Super-)Exploitation, Economic Inequality, and Impoverishment
6 Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism, and National Exploitation
7 Workers’ Struggle for Improvements within Capitalism, and for Socialism
8 Conclusion
10 Theoretical and Practical Implications of Marxist Political Economy
1 A General Map of Marx’s and Lenin’s Political Economy as a Field of Study
2 Political Economy of the Relation between the Economic and the Extra Economic
3 Political Economy of Class Society
4 Political Economy of Capitalist Class Society
5 Political Economy of Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism
6 Political Economy of the Progressive and Dark Sides of Capitalism/Imperialism
7 Political Economy of the Capitalist State
8 Political Economy of the Conditions of Workers and Petty Producers
9 Political Economy as a Guide to People’s Struggle against Capitalism
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