Kevin Carson book

CONTENTS

Preface

Part One--Theoretical Foundations: Value Theory

Chapter One--The Marginalist Attack on Classical Political Economy: An Assessment and Counter-Attack

• A. Statement of the Classical Labor Theory of Value
• B. Vulgar Political Economy, Marginalism, and the Issue of Ideological Motivation
• C. The Marginalists versus Ricardo
• D. Exceptions to the Cost-Principle: The Classicals in Their Own Defense
• E. Generality and Paradigms
• F. The Marshallian Synthesis
• G. Rothbard versus the Marshallian Synthesis
• Notes

Chapter Two--A Subjective Recasting of the Labor Theory of Value

• Notes

Chapter Three--Time Preference and the Labor Theory of Value

• Notes

Part Two--Capitalism and the State: Past, Present and Future

Introduction--Exploitation and the Political Means Notes

Chapter Four--Primitive Accumulation and the Rise of Capitalism

• Introduction
• A. The Expropriation of Land in the Old World
• B. Political Preemption of Land in Settler Societies
• C. Political Repression and Control in the Industrial Revolution
• D. Mercantilism, Colonialism, and the Creation of the "World Market"
• Conclusion: "The World We Have Lost"--And Will Regain
• Appendix--On the "Necessity" of Primitive Accumulation
• Notes

Chapter Five--The State and Capitalism in the "Laissez-Faire" Era

• A. Tucker's Big Four: Absentee Landlordism
• B. Tucker's Big Four: The Money Monopoly
• C. Tucker's Big Four: Patents
• D. Tucker's Big Four: Tariffs
• E. Transportation Subsidies
• Notes

Chapter Six--The Rise of Monopoly Capitalism

• Introduction
• A. Liberal Corporatism, Regulatory Cartelization, and the Permanent Warfare State
• B. Power Elite Theory
• C. Monopoly Capital and Super-Profits
• D. Socialization of Costs as a Form of Cartelization
• Notes

Chapter Seven--Monopoly Capitalism and Imperialism

• Introduction
• A. "Open Door Imperialism" Through the 1930s
• B. The Bretton Woods System: Culmination of Open Door Empire
• C. Export-Dependent Monopoly Capitalism (with Digression on Economy of Scale)
• Notes

Chapter Eight--Crisis Tendencies

• Introduction
• A. Accumulation Crisis
• B. Fiscal and Input Crises
• C. Legitimation Crisis
• D. Neoliberal Reaction and Political Repression
• E. Built-in Limits to Effectiveness of Neoliberal Reaction
• F. Neoconservatism as Attempted Defense Against Legitimation Crisis
• G. The Frankfurt School: Fascism and the Abandonment of the Law of Value
• H. Global Political Crisis of Imperialism
• Notes

Part Three--Praxis

Chapter Nine: Ends and Means

• A. Organizing Principles
• B. Getting There
• Notes
• Bibliography