Foreword to the English Translation of Jacques Bidet’s Que faire du ‘Capital’? --- Alex Callinicos

Author’s Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

Chapter One Preliminary Methodological Remarks

1. Pathways: 1857 to 1875

2. The history of science perspective

3. The perspective of reconstruction of the system

Chapter Two Value as Quantity

1. Constructing a homogeneous economic space: a Marxian project that breaks with political economy

2. Paralogisms of Marx the measurer

3. Capital: the categories of measurement undermine the theorisation of the substance to be measured

4. In what sense does more productive labour produce more value? The articulation of structure and dynamic

5. Skilled labour as a zone of paralogism

6. Intensity: closure and fracture of the quantitative space

Conclusion

Chapter Three Value as Sociopolitical Concept

1. Value as expenditure

2. ‘Transformation of expenditure into consumption of labour-power’

3. Money and labour-value constitute one and the same point of rupture between Marx and Ricardo

4. Value and capital as semi-concepts

5. Value and socialisation of labour: Marx’s inconsistent socialism

6. Labour-value and the state

Conclusion

Chapter Four Value and Price of Labour-Power

1. A non-normative problematic of the norm

2. Movements of value and movements of price

3. The non-functionalist character of the system: its ‘openness’

4. A hierarchy of values of labour-power?

Conclusion

Chapter Five Relations of Production and Class Relations

1. Productive and unproductive labour

2. Production and social classes

Conclusion

Chapter Six The Start of the Exposition and Its Development

1. The question of the initial moment of Capital

2. The ‘transition to capital’

Conclusion

Chapter Seven The Method of Exposition and the Hegelian Heritage

1. On the method of exposition of Capital

2. Hegel, an epistemological support/obstacle

Conclusion

Chapter Eight The Theorisation of the Ideological in Capital

1. The place of everyday consciousness:Volume 3

2. The uncertainties in Marx’s exposition

3. The ‘raisons d’être’ of the form of appearance (in Volume One)

Conclusion

Chapter Nine The Theory of the Value-Form

1. Why the historical or logico-historical interpretation cannot be relevant

2. The notion of form or expression of value, as distinct from the notion of relative value

3. Epistemological history of Chapter 1, Section 3

4. What dialectic of the form of value?

5. The expression of value ‘in use-value’

6. Fetishism, a structural category of the ideology of commodity production

Conclusion

Chapter Ten The Economy in General and Historical Materialism

1. The various generalities that Capital presupposes

2. Labour-value in pure economics and in historical materialism

Conclusion

General Conclusions

References