Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary

by Editor: Robert Antonio (University of Kansas); Series Editor: Ira J. Cohen

• ISBN13: 9780470755433
• ISBN10: 0470755431
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

General Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Marx and Modernity (Robert J. Antonio)

Section I: Marx Readings

Primary Historical Relations or the Basic Aspects of Social Activity (with Friedrich Engels)

The Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas..

The Formation of Classes..

Preface to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy

Labor Rent

Karl Marx (Friedrich Engels)

Letter to Joseph Bloch (Friedrich Engels)

The So-Called Primitive Accumulation

Development of the Division of Labor (with Friedrich Engels)

Bourgeois and Proletarians: (with Friedrich Engels)

Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation

Cooperation

Cardinal Facts of Capitalist Production

The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use Value and Value

From Value, Price and Profit

The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof

The General Formula for Capital

Division of Labor and Manufacture

Machinery and Modern Industry

General Law of Capitalist Accumulation

The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall

Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army

Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain

The Economic Crisis in Europe

Modern Industry and Agriculture

Foreign Trade

Repulsion Attraction of Workpeople

The Crisis in England

British Incomes in India

The Indian Revolt

The Factory Acts

The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production

Fixed Capital and Development of the Productive Forces of Society

Bourgeois and Proletarians: (with Friedrich Engels)

Proletarians and Communists: (with Friedrich Engels)

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The Civil War in France

Critique of the Gotha Program

Section II: Contemporary Readings

Mourning Marxism (Ronald Aronson, Wayne State University)

Marx Redux (David Harvey, Johns Hopkins University)

The Return of Karl Marx (John Cassidy)

The Connected and the Disconnected (Jeremy Rifkin)

The Architect of a New Consensus (Thomas Frank)

Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods (William Julius Wilson, Harvard University)

Fortress L.A

America's Immigration "Problem" (Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago)

47. "These Dark Satanic Mills" (William Greider)

From the Great Transformation to the Global Free Market (John Gray, London School of Economics)

Slouching toward Seattle (Jeff Faux)

Seattle Diary (Jeff St. Clair)

Not Just a Seattle Sequel (Bruce Shapiro)

Class Analysis, History, and Emancipation (Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin)

From Redistribution to Recognition? (Nancy Fraser, New School University)

Bibliography

Index

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