Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On the Current State of Revolutionary Theory

Structure of the Book

Part 1. Marx’s Early Critique of Political Economy: The Discovery of the Revolutionary Subject and the Development of Science as Practical Criticism

Chapter 1. The Dialectic of Alienated Labour and the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Paris Manuscripts

Introduction

Transformative Method and the Discovery of Alienated Labour

The Historicity of the Social Relations of Production and the Determination of Communism as the Supersession of Alienated Labour

The Determinations of the Revolutionary Subjectivity of the Proletariat and the Limits of the Paris Manuscripts

Chapter 2. The Overcoming of Philosophy and the Development of a Materialist Science

Introduction

The Need to Come to Terms with Hegel’s Philosophy

Hegel and the ‘Dilemma of Epistemology’

Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy in the Paris Manuscripts

Chapter 3. Marx on Proudhon: The Critique of Dialectical Logic and the Political Determination of Science as Practical Criticism

Introduction

The Dialectical Method as Logic in Proudhon

Abstraction vs. Analysis: From Hegel’s Ideal Reproduction of the Ideal to Marx’s Ideal Reproduction of the Material Concrete

Marx’s Movement of Contradiction beyond Proudhon’s Representational ‘Unity of Opposites’

Marx on Proudhon II: Dialectical Knowledge and Political Action

The Limits to Marx’s Early Attempt at a Dialectical Revolutionary Critique of Political Economy

Part 2. Dialectical Knowledge in Motion: Revolutionary Subjectivity in Marx’s Mature Critique of Political Economy

Chapter 4. The Commodity Form and the Dialectical Method

Introduction

Inquiry and Presentation, Analysis and Synthesis: On Some Controversies over the Initial Passages of Marx’s Argument in Capital

The Phase of Analysis

The Synthetic Phase of Reproduction Proper

Chapter 5. The Role and Place of Commodity Fetishism in Marx’s Dialectical Exposition in Capital

Introduction

The Immediate Object of Exposition of the Section on Commodity Fetishism and Its Systematic Place and Significance

The Determinations of the Alienated Form Taken by the Productive Consciousness of the Private Individual

Chapter 6. The Commodity Form, Subjectivity and the Practical Nature of Defetishising Critique

Introduction

Free Subjectivity as Alienated Subjectivity

Why Does Method Make a Difference? The Implications of Marx’s Investigation of the Commodity Form for the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity

Fetishism and Critique in Contemporary Marxian Theory: A Methodological Assessment of Some Recent Contributions

Commodity Fetishism and Science as Practical Criticism

Chapter 7. Capital Accumulation and Class Struggle: On the Content and Form of Social Reproduction in Its Alienated Form

Introduction

Capital: The Materialised Social Relation That Takes Possession of the Species-Powers of Humanity

Capital as the Subject of the Circulation Process

Capital as the Subject of the Immediate Process of Production

Valorisation of Capital and Class Struggle

Class Struggle and the Concrete Subject of the Movement of Capitalist Society

Once Again, the Question of the Dialectical Method

Appendix: Some Marxist Controversies over the Determination of the Value of Labour Power

Class Struggle and the Determination of the Value of Labour Power: The ‘Received Wisdom’ and Its Limits

Rethinking Marx’s Account of the Determinations of the Value of Labour Power

Content and Form of the Determination of the Value of Labour Power: On the Role of the Class Struggle

Chapter 8. Real Subsumption and the Genesis of the Revolutionary Subject

Introduction

The Production of Relative Surplus Value: General Determinations

Co-operation and Capital’s raison d’être in the Historical Process

Capitalist Manufacture and the Material Basis of the Class Struggle over the Full Value of Labour Power

Large-Scale Industry and Workers’ Productive Subjectivity in Capital

The Grundrisse and the System of Machinery: In Search of the Missing Link in the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity

Chapter 9. By Way of a Conclusion: Further Explorations into the Determinations of Revolutionary Subjectivity

Revolutionary Subjectivity as Alienated Subjectivity

Revolutionary Subjectivity as Productive Subjectivity

Revolutionary Subjectivity as Scientific Subjectivity

Revolutionary Subjectivity as Consciously Self-Organised Subjectivity

Revolutionary Subjectivity ‘Proper’ and the Revolutionary Conquest of the Political Power of the State

Final Words: Whose Revolutionary Action is It Anyway?

Bibliography

Index