Analytical and Dialectical Marxism

Abstract

Part 1 Dialectic in Marx - introduction taking Marx seriously Marxism in theory and practice summary of the chapters. Part 2 Contradictions in reality: Kant's transcendental dialectic the contradiction between ourselves as free agents and as beings belonging to nature Kant's dialectic of teleological judgement Kant's dialectic of self-consciousness Hegel's affirmation of contradiction Marx and contradictions in reality. Part 3 Hegel's dialectic and Marx's unity of opposites: three versions of the in Hegel the speculative is the ideal in Hegel's dialectic critique of Hegel's idealism two concepts of an unity of opposites. Part 4 Idealist and materialist mmodels of organic wholes: Mao and Mussachia on contradiction. Part 5 marx's theory of historical materialism: theoretical basis of the distinction between base and superstructure. Part 6 Marx's theory capitalim: the production and exchange of commodities dialectic of commodity production and exchange price and value the dialectic of price and value critics of the labour theory of value. Part 7 Marx's theory of revolution: the dialectic of consciousness and its objective conditions crisis theory development of the proletariat as a class in-and-for itself.