Contents

Foreword: On Marx’s Contemporary Relevance

Chapter One Method

1. The need for dialectics

2. Dialectical logic and social phenomena

3. The dialectics of individual and social phenomena

4. Class-analysis and the sociology of non-equilibrium

5. A dialectics of nature?

6. Formal logic and dialectical logic

7. Induction, deduction and verification

Chapter Two Debates

1. Recasting the issues

2. Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus-) value

3. The materiality of abstract labour

4. The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP)

5. The transformation-‘problem’

6. The alien rationality of homo economicus

Chapter Three Crises

1. Alternative explanations

2. The cyclical movement

3. The subprime debacle

4. Either Marx or Keynes

Chapter Four Subjectivity

1. Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge

2. Neither information-society nor service-society

3. Individual knowledge

4. Social knowledge

5. Labour’s knowledge

6. Knowledge and value

7. The general intellect

8. Science, technique and alien knowledge

9. Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge

10. Knowledge and transition

Appendix One The Building Blocks of Society

Appendix Two Objective and Mental Labour-Processes

Appendix Three Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts

References

Index