Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx.

Intro -- Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Note on the Citing of Capital, Volume I -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Atrophy of Philosophy -- 1 The Problem of Hegel -- 1 Hegel and Capital, Volume i, 1st German Edition -- 2 2nd German and French Editions of Volume i -- 3 Sieber on Marx and Criticizing His Use of Hegel -- Marx's Reaction -- 4 After Marx's 1883 Death, Sieber's Decline and Plekhanov's Influence -- 5 Lenin's Evolution toward Dialectical Materialism -- 6 Conclusion Moving Forward -- Part 2: Key Elements of Political Economy -- 2 Marx's Evolution and Revolution with the Concept of Value: Abstract Labor and Labor Power -- 1 Poverty of Philosophy (1847) Economic Concepts Historically Conditioned -- 2 Contribution (1859) Abstract Labor as the Substance of Value -- 3 Capital, Volume I (1867) Labor Power -- 4 Other Additions in Volume I -- 5 Marx's Retrospective on Value -- 3 Not Engels, but Marx's Final Edition of Capital, Volume I (1882) -- 1 Marx's Parts i-vi -- 2 The Structural Divisions Desired by Marx, Contrasted to Engels -- 3 Marx's Parts vii and viii (1882) Compared with Engels' 3rd German Edition (1883) -- 4 Text: "The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation", Sections 1-4, as Desired by Marx (1882) -- 1 Section 1 the Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same -- 2 Section 2 Changes in the Composition of Capital with the Progress of Accumulation and Relative Diminution of that Part of Capital that is Exchanged against Labor Power -- 3 Section 3 Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus-Population or Industrial Reserve Army -- 4 Section 4 Different Forms of the Relative Surplus-Population. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation.

5 Section 5 Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- 5 Marx on Primitive Accumulation Contrasted to Engels' Handling of the Topic -- 1 Why, for Marx, Primitive Accumulation became a New Part viii -- 2 Engels' Disparate Handling of the English (1887) and 4th German (1890) Editions of Volume i -- Danielson's 2nd Russian edition (1898) -- 3 Engels' Continuing Failure to Recognize Marx's Advances -- 4 Postscript Marx's Primitive Accumulation Conflated with Modern Dispossessions/ Enclosures -- 6 Marxist Accumulation of Capital? -- 1 Accumulation of Capital in Capital, Volume I -- 2 Schemes of Reproduction in Capital, Volume II -- 3 Ambiguity -- 4 "Marxist Accumulation of Capital" -- 5 An Algebraic Model of Marxist Accumulation with Fixed Constant Capital Included -- 7 Three Troubling Issues -- 1 Conundrum Value under Marxist Accumulation of Capital -- 2 Sieber's Query of Value in Marx -- 3 Prejudices of Marx and Engels -- 8 The Composition of Capital Clarified Theoretically, Empirically -- 1 Materialized Composition of Capital and the Rate of Profit -- 2 Luxemburg's Recognition of the Materialized Composition, Considering It to be Rising -- 3 Marx's and Engels' Estimations for Cotton Spinning -- 4 Estimates of the Composition of Capital, Post-World War II -- 5 Updated Estimation for the United States -- 6 Limitations of Current Discussion -- 9 Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital and Consideration of the Evidence -- 1 The Issue Luxemburg Addressed -- 2 Luxemburg's Critique of Marx on Accumulation and Her Response to Bauer's Criticism -- 3 Criticisms of Luxemburg's Accumulation after her Death Bukharin to Shaikh -- 4 Luxemburg Gets Assists from Robinson and Kowalik -- 5 Historical Accumulation and Fraction of Surplus Value Required -- Part 3: Considering Nationalism and State Machiavellianism.

10 Luxemburg's "The National Question and Antonomy" and Lenin's Criticism -- 1 The Features of Luxemburg's Theory on the National Question -- 2 The Polish Question and Marx and Engels -- 3 Luxemburg's "The National Question and Autonomy -- 4 Criticism and an Evaluation of "The National Question and Autonomy -- 5 Epilogue -- 11 Marxism, Machiavellianism, and Conspiracy Theory -- 1 Conspiracies and Marxist Theory of the Nation State -- 2 Marx on Louis Bonaparte's Conspiratorial Coup -- 3 Were Wars Initiated by Provocations, Prevarications, or False-Flags? Some Background -- 4 "Conspiracy Theory" Becomes a Weapon of the State after the Assassination of John F. Kennedy -- 5 Dismissing a Jury Trial Conviction of State Conspiracy in the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 6 Utilization of the "Conspiracy Theory" Weapon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 -- References -- Index -- Chapter 8 The Composition of Capital Clarified Theoretically, Empirically -- 1 Materialized Composition of Capital and the Rate of Profit -- 2 Luxemburg's Recognition of the Materialized Composition, Considering It to be Rising -- 3 Marx's and Engels' Estimations for Cotton Spinning -- 4 Estimates of the Composition of Capital, Post-World War ii -- 5 Updated Estimation for the United States -- 6 Limitations of Current Discussion.

Marx's oeuvre is vast yet with key elements to an evolving social theory, even including state conspiracies. Deep confrontation with Ricardian economics is an expression, including with accumulation of capital. Luxemburg was the most significant contributor to Marxism, post-Marx.

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