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The Fragile Juggernaut

Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis

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ISBN: 978-90-04-70836-5

Verlag: Brill

Erscheinungstermin: 21.11.2024

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Foreword

Preface

1 Introduction

1 Work, the Vulnerable Heart of Capitalism

2 “Class” and Class Struggle

3 Capitalism, the Fragile Juggernaut

4 What Constitutes a Crisis?

2 Marx & Engels’ Studies of Crisies, 1843-1895

1 The Early Studies: 1842-1852

1.1 Paris and Manchester

1.2 Brussels

1.3 Paris

1.4 Cologne

1.5 London

2 Years of Theory, 1857-1867

2.1 From Notes to Weighty Tomes

2.2 The First International (1864–1876)

3 After Capital, 1867-1895

3.1 A New Terrain of Struggle: Electoral Politics

3.2 Continuing Conflicts within the First International

3.3 War and the Paris Commune

3.4 Revisions and Translations

3.5 Working Class Parties and Debates

3.6 Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program

3.7 Engels: Anti-Dühring

3.8 Engels: Socialism: Utopian & Scientific

3.9 Engels: the Dialectics of Nature

3.10 Periodical Crisis Becomes Permanent Stagnation?

3.11 The Second International

3.12 Engels: Sources and Circulation of Crises

3 Marx’s Theory of Accumulation

1 A “Labor” Theory of Value?

2 The Material Circuits of Accumulation

3 Three Observations

4 Omnipresent Conflict; Omnipresent Struggle

5 Conditions of Reproduction

6 Accumulation in Terms of “Value”

6.1 The Substance of Value

6.2 The Measure of Value

6.3 The Form of Value

4 The Possibilities of Crisis

1 Markets & Crisis

2 And in Capitalism Per Se

3 Possibilities of Crisis in the First Stage of the Circuit: Investment

3.1 Possible Crises in Gathering Enough Money, M

3.2 Possible Crises in Hiring in the Labor Market, L – P

3.3 Possible Crises of Hiring in the Labor Market, M – LP

3.4 Possible Crises for Buyers of the Means of Production, M – MP

4 Possibilities of Crisis in the Second Stage of the Circuit: Production

4.1 Possible Crises with Labor-Power, LP in … P …

4.2 Possible Crises in Means of Production, MP in … P …

4.3 Possible Crises Caused by a Rising Organic Composition of Capital

4.4 Possible Crises Due to a Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall

5 Possibilities of Crisis in the Third Stage of the Circuit: Sales

5.1 Possible Crises in Selling Slaves, C(LP) – M'

5.2 Possible Crises in Selling C(MS)’ or C(MP)’

5.3 Credit, Debt, and Commercial Crisis

5.4 Summarizing

5 Predispositions to Crisis

1 Predispositions in the First Stage of the Circuit: Investment

1.1 Forces Limiting Access to Money for Investment, M

1.2 Forces Interfering with the Supply of Labor-Power, LP

1.3 Forces Causing a Shortage in the Supply of the Means of Production, MP

2 Predispositions in the Second Stage: Production

2.1 Predispositions to Breakdowns in Labor-Power, LP

2.2 Predispositions to Breakdowns in the Means of Production, MP

2.3 Predispositions to Increasing the Organic Composition of Capital

2.4 Predispositions to a Falling Rate of Profit Tendency and Its Crises

3 Predispositions in the Third Stage of the Circuit: Sales

3.1 Predispositions to Crises in Selling Slaves, C(LP) – M'

3.2 Predisposition to Crises in Markets for C(MS)’ or C(MP)’

3.3 Predispositions to Credit Crises

4 The Circulation of Breakdown

4.1 Quantitative and Qualitative Change

4.2 Circulation of Crisis within Individual Circuits

4.3 Circulation of Crisis among Interconnected Circuits

5 Linkages among Tendencies

6 Offsetting Strategies and Their Contradictions

1 Force

2 Laws: Writing and Enforcing

3 Ideology: Ideas, Institutions and Behavior

4 Strategic Ideas

5 Apologetic Ideas

6 Structural Changes

7 Offsets in the First Stage of the Circuit: Investment

7.1 Getting Enough Money

7.2 Fixing the Supply of Labor-Power

7.3 Offsetting Crises in Buying the Means of Production, M – MP

8 Offsets in the Second Stage of the Circuit: Production, … P …

8.1 Countering Breakdowns in Labor-Power

8.2 Countering Breakdowns in the Means of Production

8.3 Offsets to Crises Due to Rising Organic Composition of Capital

8.4 Offsets to the Falling Rate of Profit Tendency

9 Offsets in the Third Stage of the Circuit: Sales

9.1 Dealing with Crises in Selling Slaves, C(LP) – M'

9.2 Dealing with Crises in Selling C(MS)’ or C(MP)’

9.3 Dealing with Crises in Selling the Means of Production, C(MP)’ – M'

9.4 Countering Credit and Commercial Crises

10 Offsets to the Circulation of Breakdown

10.1 Dealing with Qualitative Change

10.2 Blunting Circulation within Individual Circuits

10.3 Blunting Circulation among Interconnected Circuits

7 Crises as Solutions to the Contradictions of Accumulation

1 In the First Stage of the Circuit: LP – M/M – LP

2 In the Second Stage of the Circuit: …P…

3 In the Third Stage of the Circuit: C' – M'

8 Crisis and Revolution

1 Revolution: Another Amoebic Term

2 “Revolution” as Used by Marx and Engels

Appendix 1: Note to Polish Readers (2016)

Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography of Marx and Engels’ Writings on Crisis

Index

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