Prologue: the crisis of capitalism this time around --
Introduction: On contradiction --
Part One: The foundational contradictions. Use value and exchange value --
The social value of labor and its representation by money --
Private property and the capitalist state --
Private appropriation and common wealth --
Capital as process or thing? --
The contradictory unity of production and realization --
Part Two: The moving contradictions. Technology, work, and human disposability --
Monopoly and competition: centralisation and decentralisation --
Uneven geographical developments and the production of space --
Disparities of income and wealth --
Freedom and domination --
Part three: The dangerous contradictions. Endless compound growth --
Capital's relation to nature --
The revolt of human nature: universal alienation --
Conclusion: Prospects for a happy but contested future: the promise of revolutionary humanism --
Epilogue: Ideas for political praxis.
Prologue: the crisis of capitalism this time around --
Introduction: On contradiction --
Part One: The foundational contradictions. Use value and exchange value --
The social value of labor and its representation by money --
Private property and the capitalist state --
Private appropriation and common wealth --
Capital as process or thing? --
The contradictory unity of production and realization --
Part Two: The moving contradictions. Technology, work, and human disposability --
Monopoly and competition: centralisation and decentralisation --
Uneven geographical developments and the production of space --
Disparities of income and wealth --
Freedom and domination --
Part three: The dangerous contradictions. Endless compound growth --
Capital's relation to nature --
The revolt of human nature: universal alienation --
Conclusion: Prospects for a happy but contested future: the promise of revolutionary humanism --
Epilogue: Ideas for political praxis.