Gerald Cohen. Karl Marx’s Theory of History.

Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE 2000 EDITION: REFLECTIONS ON ANALYTICAL MARXISM

I – IMAGES OF HISTORY IN HEGEL AND MARX

II – THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES

III – THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

IV – MATERIAL AND SOCIAL PROPERTIES OF SOCIETY

V – FETISHISM

VI – THE PRIMACY OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES

VII – TH E PRODUCTIVE FORCES AND CAPITALISM

VIII – BASE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE, POWERS AND RIGHTS

IX – FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION: IN GENERAL

X – FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION: IN MARXISM

XI – USE-VALUE, EXCHANGE-VALUE, AND CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM

XII – FETTERING

XIII – RECONSIDERING HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

XIV – RESTRICTED AND INCLUSIVE HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

XV – MARXISM AFTER TH E COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

APPENDIX I. Karl Marx and the Withering Away of Social Science

APPENDIX II. Some Definitions