Karl Marx's Theory of History: A DefenceFirst published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classicof modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophicaltechniques in an uncompromising defence of historical materialism commandedwidespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as aflagship of a powerful intellectual movement - analytical Marxism. In thisexpanded edition Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the furtherpromise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations abouttraditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs thetheory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demiseof the Soviet Union. |
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Contents
IMAGES OF HISTORY IN HEGEL AND MARX | 1 |
II | 11 |
THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES AND CAPITALISM | 17 |
1 Economic Structure and Productive Forces | 28 |
III | 55 |
IV | 79 |
2 Matter and Form in the Labour Process | 88 |
V | 100 |
BASE AND SUPERSTRUCTURE POWERS AND RIGHTS | 216 |
IX | 249 |
IN MARXISM | 278 |
USEVALUE EXCHANGEVALUE AND CONTEMPORARY | 297 |
FETTERING | 326 |
RECONSIDERING HISTORICAL MATERIALISM | 341 |
RESTRICTED AND INCLUSIVE HISTORICAL | 364 |
MARXISM AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET | 389 |
FETISHISM | 115 |
4 Diagnosis of Capital Fetishism | 121 |
125 | 142 |
2 The Capitalist Economic Structure and the Capitalist Mode | 180 |
3 Capitalism and the Development of the Productive Forces | 193 |
5 Capitalisms Mission and its Fate | 201 |
7 Why are Classes Necessary? | 207 |
Karl Marx and the Withering Away of Social Science | 396 |
Some Definitions | 415 |
LIST OF WORKS CITED | 425 |
433 | |
437 | |
Common terms and phrases
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