Introduction
Part One On Marx’s Theory of Practice
On Culture and Civilization
Plato’s
Republic and Human Flourishing
Rousseau’s Problem
On Property, Private Property, and Human Flourishing
Hegel, Recognition, and the Modern State
Hegel on Human Flourishing in the Modern State
Hegel and Economic Flourishing
Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Marx on Theory, Practice, and Changing the World
On the Marxian Subject
Feuerbach, Fichte, and the Marxian Subject
On the Marxian Alternative to Modern Political Economy
Marxian Political Economy as Economic Constructivism
Marx on Human Flourishing and Communism
Human Flourishing as Social Freedom
Part Two Marx and Marxism on Materialism, Feuerbach, and Hegel
What Is Materialism?
Materialism in Marx’s Early Writings
Engels’s (Marxist) View of Feuerbach
Materialism, Idealism, and
The German Ideology
Marx’s (Non-Marxist) View of Feuerbach
Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach”
Vico, Materialism, and Constructivism in
Capital
Materialism, Dialectic, and the Second Afterword to
Capital
Excursus on the Reflection Theory of Knowledge
On Hegel’s Dialectical Theory of Cognition
Marx on Hegelian Dialectic
Part Three On the Practice of Marx’s Theory, or the Transition from Capitalism to Communism
1. Transition through the Revolutionary Proletariat
2. Transition through Economic Crisis
Normal and Abnormal Economic Crises
Introduction to Marx on “Crisis” in Theories of Surplus Value
Marx Attacks Ricardo’s View of Profit
The Mature Marxian View of Economic Crisis
Financial Crisis and the Marxian Model of Economic Crisis
Economic Crisis and Value Theory
Limitations to the Falling Rate of Profit
Croce, Okishio, Piketty, and the Falling Rate of Profit
Critical Remarks on the Marxian Model of the Final Economic Crisis
An Excursus on Marx and Financial Crisis
3. Transition through Politics
On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
On the Practice of Proletarian Dictatorship
On the Withering Away of the State
Lenin on the Party as the Revolutionary Vanguard
Lenin on Democracy
Dictatorship over the Proletariat
4. Transition through Critical Social Theory
Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory
Critical Theory, or Critical Social Theory
Excursus on Pollock and Critical Theory
Pollock, Habermas, and Critical Social Theory
Habermas on Historical Materialism
Conclusion: Marx’s Dream
Notes
Index