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Born in the 1970s and 80s, these men and women recount how their lives changed over a tumultuous stretch of thirty-five years: first when Fidel opened the country to tourism following the fall of the Soviet bloc; then when Raúl Castro allowed market forces to operate, thinking it would stop the country's economic slide; and finally when President Trump's tightening of the US embargo combined with the Covid-19 pandemic to cause economic collapse. With warmth and humanity, they describe learning to survive in an environment where a tiny minority has grown rich by local standards, the great majority has been left behind, and inequality has destroyed the very things that used to give meaning to Cubans' lives.  Born out of the first oral history project authorized by the Cuban government in forty years, Professor Elizabeth Dore gathers these stories to illuminate the slow and agonizing decline of the Cuban Revolution over the past four decades. 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Dore handles their stories of triumph and hardship with honesty, compassion and respect, and in the process has held up a mirror to the state of the Cuban Revolution in the twenty-first century. \u003ci\u003eHow Things Fall Apart\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital addition to Cuba's rich oral tradition -- Will Grant, BBC Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent\u003cbr\u003eThese life stories of Cubans are so raw, so honest, so moving, that you feel as if you know each of them personally. To have gathered them together with such grace, eloquence and trust is a towering achievement... 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Dore's impressive book sadly portrays the unraveling of the revolutionary utopian dream -- Professor Susan Eckstein\u003cbr\u003eThe chronicle of a death foretold * Spectator *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47850953179479,"sku":"9781803283814","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781803283814.jpg?v=1710625486"},{"product_id":"mao-the-unknown-story-9780099507376","title":"Mao The Unknown Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. Her award-winning book, \u003ci\u003eWild Swans\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1991. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJon Halliday is a former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, University of London. He has written or edited eight previous books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first great political biography of the twenty-first century\u003c\/b\u003e -- Frank Johnson * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a bombshell of a book... 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In this intimate biography we learn not only about the imperial grandeur of his life in a country racked by poverty and the vicious infighting at his court, but also about his extraordinary personal habits that equal those of deceased Korean supreme leader, Kim Jong Il, another infamous and idiosyncratic dictator, equally deified and worshipped by his followers: Mao''s teeth turned black because he would only brush them with tea; he hardly ever bathed but then received Krushchev in his swimming pool where he obliged the Soviet President to join him. Li''s revealing account also chronicles Mao''s voracious sexual appetite that led to the seduction of thousands of peasant women because he believed in the mythical healing power of sex. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZhisui Li spent more time with Mao than perhaps any other person. 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Here, for the first time, Marx set out his own version of Hegel''s dialectics and developed his mature views on labour, surplus value and profit, offering many fresh insights into alienation, automation and the dangers of capitalist society. Yet while the theories in Grundrisse make it a vital precursor to Capital, it also provides invaluable descriptions of Marx''s wider-ranging philosophy, making it a unique insight into his beliefs and hopes for the foundation of a communist state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction (Notebook M)1. Production in general\u003cbr\u003e2. General relation between production, distribution, exchange and consumption\u003cbr\u003e3. The method of political economy\u003cbr\u003e4. 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Value and capital.  Proudhon\u003cbr\u003eCapital and labour.  Exchange value and use value for exchange value\u003cbr\u003eMoney and its use value (labour) in this relation capital: Self-multiplication of value is its only movement\u003cbr\u003eCapital, as regards substance, objectified labour.  Its antithesis, living, productive labour\u003cbr\u003eProductive labour and labour as performance of a service\u003cbr\u003eProductive and unproductive labour.  A. Smith etc.\u003cbr\u003eThe two different processes in the exchange of capital with labour\u003cbr\u003eCapital and modern landed property\u003cbr\u003eThe market\u003cbr\u003eExchange between capital and labour.  Piecework wages\u003cbr\u003eValue of labour power\u003cbr\u003eShare of the wage labourer in general wealth determined only quantitatively\u003cbr\u003eMoney is the worker's equivalent; he thus confronts capital as an equal\u003cbr\u003eBut the aim of his exchange is satisfaction of his need.  Money for him is only medium of circulation\u003cbr\u003eSavings, self-denial as means of the worker's enrichment\u003cbr\u003eValuelessness and devaluation of the worker a condition of capital\u003cbr\u003e(Labour power as capital!)\u003cbr\u003eWages not productive\u003cbr\u003eThe exchange between capital and labour belongs within simple circulation, does not enrich the worker\u003cbr\u003eSeparation of labour and property the precondition of this exchange\u003cbr\u003eLabour as object absolute poverty, labour as subject general possibility of wealth\u003cbr\u003eLabour without particular specificity confronts capital\u003cbr\u003eLabour process absorbed into capital\u003cbr\u003e(Capital and capitalist)\u003cbr\u003eProduction process as content of capital\u003cbr\u003eThe worker relates to his labour as exchange value, the capitalist as use value\u003cbr\u003eThe worker divests himself of labour as the wealth-producing power; capital appropriates it as such\u003cbr\u003eTranformation of labour into capital\u003cbr\u003eRealization process\u003cbr\u003e(Costs of production)\u003cbr\u003eMere self-preservation, non-multiplication of value contradicts the essence of capital\u003cbr\u003eCapital enters the cost of production as capital.  Interest bearing capital (Parentheses on: original accumulation of capital, historic presuppositions of capital, production in general)\u003cbr\u003eSurplus value.  Surplus labour time\u003cbr\u003eValue of labour.  How it is determined\u003cbr\u003eConditions for the self-realization of capital\u003cbr\u003eCapital is productive as creator of surplus labour\u003cbr\u003eBut this is only a historical and transitory phenomenon\u003cbr\u003eTheories of surplus value (Ricardo; the Physiocrats; Adam Smith; Ricardo again)\u003cbr\u003eSurplus value and productive force.  Relation when these increase\u003cbr\u003eResult: in proportion as necessary labour is already diminished, the realization of capital becomes more difficult\u003cbr\u003eConcerning increases in the value of capital\u003cbr\u003eLabour does not reproduce the value of material and instrument, but rather preserves it by relating to them in the labour process as to their objective conditions\u003cbr\u003eAbsolute surplus labour time.  Relative\u003cbr\u003eIt is not the quantity of living labour, but rather its quality as labour which preserves the labour time already contained in the material\u003cbr\u003eThe change of form and substance in the direct production process\u003cbr\u003eIt is inherent in the simple production process that the previous stage of production is preserved through the subsequent one\u003cbr\u003ePreservation of the old use value by new labour\u003cbr\u003eThe quantity of objectified labour is preserved because contact with living labour preserves its quality as use value for new labour\u003cbr\u003eIn the real production process, the separation of labour from its objective moments of existence is suspended.  But in this process labour is already incorporated in capital\u003cbr\u003eThe capitalist obtains surplus labour free of charge together with the maintenance of the value of material and instrument\u003cbr\u003eThrough the appropriation of present labour, capital already possesses a claim to the appropriation of future labour\u003cbr\u003eConfusion of profit and surplus value.  Carey's erroneous calculation\u003cbr\u003eThe capitalist, who does not pay the worker for the preservation of the old value, then demands remuneration for giving the worker permission to preserve the old capital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurplus Value and Profit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDifference between consumption of the instrument and of wages.  The former consumed in the production process, the latter outside it\u003cbr\u003eIncrease of surplus value and decrease in rate of profit\u003cbr\u003eMultiplication of simultaneous working days\u003cbr\u003eMachinery\u003cbr\u003eGrowth of the constant part of capital in relation to the variable part spent on wages=growth of the productivity of labour\u003cbr\u003eProportion in which capital has to increase in order to employ the same number of workers if productivity rises\u003cbr\u003ePercentage of total capital can express very different relations\u003cbr\u003eCapital (like property in general) rests on the productivity of labour\u003cbr\u003eIncrease of surplus labour time.  Increase of simultaneous working days. (Population)\u003cbr\u003e(Population can increase in proportion as necessary labour time becomes smaller)\u003cbr\u003eTransition from the process of the production of capital into the process of circulation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Two: The Circulation Process of Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevaluation of capital itself owing to increase of productive forces\u003cbr\u003e(Competition)\u003cbr\u003eCapital as unity and contradiction of the production process and the realization process\u003cbr\u003eCapital as limit to production.  Overproduction\u003cbr\u003eDemand by the workers themselves\u003cbr\u003eBarriers to capitalist production\u003cbr\u003eOVerproduction; Proudhon\u003cbr\u003ePrice of the commodity and labour time\u003cbr\u003eThe capitalist does not sell too dear; but still above what the thing costs him\u003cbr\u003ePrice can fall below value without damage to capital\u003cbr\u003eNumber and unit (measure) important in the multiplication of prices\u003cbr\u003eSpecific accumulation of capital.  (Transformation of surplus labour into capital)\u003cbr\u003eThe determination of value and of prices\u003cbr\u003eThe general rate of profit\u003cbr\u003eIf the capitalist merely sells at his own cost of production, then it is a transfer to another capitalist.  The worker gains almost nothing thereby\u003cbr\u003eBarrier of capitalist production.  Relation of surplus labour to necessary labour.  Proportion of the surplus consumed by capital to that transformed into capital\u003cbr\u003eDevaluation during crises\u003cbr\u003eCapital coming out of the production process becomes money again\u003cbr\u003e(Parenthesis on capital in general)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurplus Labour or Surplus Value Becomes Surplus Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the determinants of capitalist production now appear as the result of (wage) labour itself\u003cbr\u003eThe realization process of labour at the same time its de-realization process\u003cbr\u003eFormation of surplus capital I\u003cbr\u003eSurplus capital II\u003cbr\u003eInversion of the law of appropriation\u003cbr\u003eChief result of the production and realization process\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOriginal accumulation of capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce developed historically, capital itself creates the conditions of its existence\u003cbr\u003e(Performance of personal services, as opposed to wage labour)\u003cbr\u003e(Parenthesis on inversion of the law of property, real alien relation of the worker to his product, division of labour, machinery)\u003cbr\u003eForms which precede capitalist production.  (Concerning the process which precedes the formation of the capital relation or of original accumulation)\u003cbr\u003eExchange of labour for labour rests on the worker's propertylessness\u003cbr\u003eCirculation of capital and circulation of money\u003cbr\u003eProduction process and circulation process moments of production.  The productivity of the different capitals (branches of industry) determines that of the individual capital\u003cbr\u003eCirculation period.  Velocity of circulation substitutes for volume of capital.  Mutual dependence of capitals in the velocity of their circulation\u003cbr\u003eThe four moments in the turnover of capital\u003cbr\u003eMoment II to be considered here: transformation of the product into money; duration of this operation. Transport costs.  Circulation costs.  Means of communication and transport\u003cbr\u003eDivision of the branches of labour\u003cbr\u003eConcentration of many workers; productive force of this concentration\u003cbr\u003eGeneral as distinct from particular conditions of production\u003cbr\u003eTransport to market (spatial condition of circulation) belongs in the production process\u003cbr\u003eCredit, the temporal moment of circulation\u003cbr\u003eCapital is circulating capital\u003cbr\u003eInfluence of circulation on the determination of value; circulation time=time of devaluation\u003cbr\u003eDifference between the capitalist mode of production and all earlier ones (universality, propagandistic nature)\u003cbr\u003e(Capital itself is the contradiction)\u003cbr\u003eCirculation and creation of value\u003cbr\u003eCapital not a source of value-creation\u003cbr\u003eContinuity of production presupposes suspension of circulation time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheories of Surplus Value\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRamsay's view that capital is its own source of profit\u003cbr\u003eNo surplus value according to Ricardo's law\u003cbr\u003eRicardo's theory of value.  Wages and profit\u003cbr\u003eQuincey\u003cbr\u003eRicardo\u003cbr\u003eWakefield.  Conditions of capitalist production in colonies\u003cbr\u003eSurplus value and profit.  Example (Malthus)\u003cbr\u003eDifference between labour and labour capacity\u003cbr\u003eCarey's theory of the cheapening of capital for the worker\u003cbr\u003eCarey's theory of the decline of the rate of profit\u003cbr\u003eWakefield on the contradiction between Ricardo's theories of wage labour and of value\u003cbr\u003eBailey on dormant capital and increase of production without previous increase of capital\u003cbr\u003eWade's explanation of capital.  Capital, collective force.  Capital, civilization.\u003cbr\u003eRossi.  What is capital?  Is raw material capital?  Are wages necessary for it?\u003cbr\u003eMalthus.  Theory of value and of wages\u003cbr\u003eAim of capitalist production value (money), not commodity, use value etc. Chalmers\u003cbr\u003eDifference in return.  Interruption of the production process.  Total duration of the production process.  Unequal periods of production\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of the free labourer contains the pauper.  Population and overpopulation\u003cbr\u003eNecessary labour.  Surplus labour.  Surplus population.  Surplus capital\u003cbr\u003eAdam Smith: work as sacrifice\u003cbr\u003eAdam Smith: the origin of profit\u003cbr\u003eSurplus labour.  Profit.  Wages\u003cbr\u003eImmovable capital.  Return of capital.  Fixed capital.  John Stuart Mill\u003cbr\u003eTurnover of capital.  Circulation process.  Production process.  Circulation costs.  Circulation time\u003cbr\u003eCapital's change of form and of substance; different forms of capital; circulation capital as general character of capital\u003cbr\u003eFixed (tied down) capital and circulating capital\u003cbr\u003eConstant and variable capital\u003cbr\u003eCompetition\u003cbr\u003eSurplus value.  Production time.  Circulation time.  Turnover time\u003cbr\u003eCompetition (continued)\u003cbr\u003ePart of capital in production time, part in circulation time\u003cbr\u003eSurplus value and production phase.  Number of reproductions of capital = number of turnovers\u003cbr\u003eChange of form and of matter in the circulation of capital.  C-M-C.  M-C-M\u003cbr\u003eDifference between production time and labour time\u003cbr\u003eFormation of a mercantile estate; credit\u003cbr\u003eSmall-scale circulation.  The process of exchange between capital and labour capacity generally\u003cbr\u003eThreefold character, or mode, of circulation\u003cbr\u003eFixed capital and circulating capital\u003cbr\u003eInfluence of fixed capital on the total turnover time of capital\u003cbr\u003eFixed capital.  Means of labour.  Machine\u003cbr\u003eTransposition of powers of labour into powers of capital both in fixed and in circulatin capital\u003cbr\u003eTo what extent fixed capital (machine) creates value\u003cbr\u003eFixed capital and continuity of the production process.  Machinery and living labour.\u003cbr\u003eContradiction between the foundation of bourgeois production (value as measure) and its development\u003cbr\u003eSignificance of the development of fixed capital (for the development of capital generally)\u003cbr\u003eThe chief role of capital is to create disposable time; contradictory form of this in capital\u003cbr\u003eDurability of fixed capital\u003cbr\u003eReal saving (economy)=saving of labour time=development of productive force\u003cbr\u003eTrue conception of the process of social production\u003cbr\u003eOwen's historical conception of industrial (capitalist) production\u003cbr\u003eCapital and value of natural agencies\u003cbr\u003eScope of fixed capital indicates the level of capitalist production\u003cbr\u003eIs money fixed capital or circulating capital?\u003cbr\u003eTurnover time of capital consisting of fixed capital and circulating capital.  Reproduction time of fixed capital\u003cbr\u003eThe same commodity sometimes circulating capital, sometimes fixed capital\u003cbr\u003eEvery moment which is a presupposition of production is at the same time its result, in that it reproductes its own conditions\u003cbr\u003eThe counter-value of circulating capital must be produced within the year.  Not so for fixed capital.  It engages the production of subsequent years\u003cbr\u003eMaintanence costs of fixed capital\u003cbr\u003eRevenue of fixed capital and circulating capital\u003cbr\u003eFree labour=latent pauperism.  Eden\u003cbr\u003eThe smaller the value of fixed capital in relation to its product, the more useful\u003cbr\u003eMovable and immovable, fixed and circulating\u003cbr\u003eConnection of circulation and reproduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Three: Capital as Fructiferous.  Tranformation of Surplus Value into Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRate of profit.  Fall of the rate of profit\u003cbr\u003eSurplus value as profit always expresses a lesser proportion\u003cbr\u003eWakefield, Carey and Bastiat on the rate of profit\u003cbr\u003eCapital and revenue (profit).  Production and distribution.  Sismondi\u003cbr\u003eTransformation of surplus value into profit\u003cbr\u003eLaws of this and transformation\u003cbr\u003eSurplus value=relation of surplus labour to necessary labour\u003cbr\u003eValue of fixed capital and its productive power\u003cbr\u003eMachinery and surplus labour.  Recapitulation of the doctrine of surplus value generally\u003cbr\u003eRelation between the objective conditions of production.  Change in the proportion of the component parts of capital\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoney and fixed capital: presupposes a certain amount of wealth.  Relation of fixed capital and circulating capital \u003ci\u003e(Economist)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlavery and wage labour; profit upon alienation (Steuart)\u003cbr\u003eSteuart, Montanari and Gouge on money\u003cbr\u003eThe wool industry in England since Elizabeth; silk-manufacture; iron; cotton\u003cbr\u003eOrigin of free wage labour.  Vagabondage.  (Tuckett)\u003cbr\u003eBlake on accumulation and rate of profit; dormant capital\u003cbr\u003eDomestic agriculture at the beginning of the sixteenth century.  (Tuckett)\u003cbr\u003eProfit.  Interest.  Influence of machinery on the wage fund.  \u003ci\u003e(Westminster Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoney as measure of values and yardstick of prices.  Critique of theories of the standard measure of money\u003cbr\u003eTransformation of the medium of circulation into money.  Formation of treasures.  Means of payment.  Prices of commodities and quantity of circulating money.  Value of money\u003cbr\u003eCapital, not labour, determines the value of money (Torrens)\u003cbr\u003eThe minimum of wages\u003cbr\u003eCotton machinery and working men in 1826.  (Hodgskin)\u003cbr\u003eHow the machine creates raw material.  \u003ci\u003e(Economist)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMachinery and surplus labour\u003cbr\u003eCapital and profit.  Relation of the worker to the conditions of labour in capitalist production.  All parts of capital bring a profit\u003cbr\u003eTendency of the machine to prolong labour\u003cbr\u003eCotton factories in England.  Example for machinery and surplus labour\u003cbr\u003eExamples from Glasgow for the rate of profit\u003cbr\u003eAlienation of the conditions of labour with the development of capital.  Inversion\u003cbr\u003eMerivale.  Natural dependence of the worker in colonies to be replaced by artificial restrictions\u003cbr\u003eHow the machine saves material.  Bread.  Dureau de la Malle\u003cbr\u003eDevelopment of money and interest\u003cbr\u003eProductive consumpion.  Newman.  Transformations of capital.  Economic cycle\u003cbr\u003eDr. Price.  Innate power of capital\u003cbr\u003eProudhon.  Capital and simple exchange.  Surplus\u003cbr\u003eNecessity of the worker's propertylessness\u003cbr\u003eGaliani\u003cbr\u003eTheory of savings.  Storch\u003cbr\u003eMacCulloch.  Surplus.  Profit\u003cbr\u003eArnd.  Natural interest\u003cbr\u003eInterest and profit.  Carey\u003cbr\u003eHow merchant takes the place of master\u003cbr\u003eMerchant wealth\u003cbr\u003eCommerce with equivalents impossible.  Opdyke\u003cbr\u003ePrincipal and interest\u003cbr\u003eDouble standard\u003cbr\u003eOn money\u003cbr\u003eJames Mill's false theory of prices\u003cbr\u003eRicardo on currency\u003cbr\u003eOn money\u003cbr\u003eTheory of foreign trade.  Two nations may exchange according to the law of profit in such a way that both gain, but one is always defrauded\u003cbr\u003eMoney in its third role, as money\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e(I) Value (This section to be brought forward)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBastiat and Carey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBastiat's economic harmonies\u003cbr\u003eBastiat on wages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732375712087,"sku":"9780140445756","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140445756.jpg?v=1719996611"},{"product_id":"capital-9780140445701","title":"Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnfinished at the time of Marx''s death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the theories and concepts of the two previous volumes in order to prove conclusively that capitalism is inherently unworkable as a permanent system for society. Here, Marx asserts controversially that - regardless of the efforts of individual capitalists, public authorities or even generous philanthropists - any market economy is inevitably doomed to endure a series of worsening, explosive crises leading finally to complete collapse. But healso offers an inspirational and compelling prediction: that the end of capitalism will culminate, ultimately, in the birth of a far greater form of society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Ernest Mandel\u003cbr\u003ePreface (Frederick Engels)\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III: THE PROCESS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION AS A WHOLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SURPLUS-VALUE INTO PROFIT, AND OF THE RATE OF SURPLUS-VALUE INTO THE RATE OF PROFIT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Cost Price and Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: The Rate of Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The Relationship between Rate of Profit and Rate of Surplus-Value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: The Effect of the Turnover on the Rate of Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Economy in the Use of Constant Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. General Considerations\u003cbr\u003e2. Saving on the Conditions of Work at the Workers' Expense\u003cbr\u003e3. Economy in the Generation and Transmission of Power, and on Buildings\u003cbr\u003e4. Utilization of the Refuse of Production\u003cbr\u003e5. Economy through Inventions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: The Effect of Changes in Price \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Fluctuations in the Price of Raw Material; Their Direct Effects on the Rate of Profit\u003cbr\u003e2. Revaluation and Devaluation of Capital; Release and Tying-Up of Capital\u003cbr\u003e3. General Illustration: The Cotton Crisis 1861-5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Supplementary Remarks \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: THE TRANSFORMATION OF PROFIT INTO AVERAGE PROFIT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Different Compositions of Capital in Different Branches of Production, and the Resulting Variation in Rates of Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit), and Transformation of Commodity Values into Prices of Production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: The Equalization of the General Rate of Profit through Competition. Market Prices and Market Values. Surplus Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: The Effects of General Fluctuations in Wages on the Prices of Production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12: Supplementary Remarks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Causes of a Change in the Price of Production\u003cbr\u003e2. The Production Price of Commodities of Average Composition\u003cbr\u003e3. The Capitalist's Grounds for Compensation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE: THE LAW OF THE TENDENTIAL FALL IN THE RATE OF PROFIT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13: The Law Itself\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14: Counteracting Factors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. More Intense Exploitation of Labour\u003cbr\u003e2. Reduction of Wages below their Value\u003cbr\u003e3. Cheapening of the Elements of Constant Capital\u003cbr\u003e4. The Relative Surplus Population\u003cbr\u003e5. Foreign Trade\u003cbr\u003e6. The Increase in Share Capital\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 15: Development of the Law's Internal Contradictions \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. General Considerations\u003cbr\u003e2. The Conflict between the Extension of Production and Valorization\u003cbr\u003e3. Surplus Capital alongside Surplus Population\u003cbr\u003e4. Supplementary Remarks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR: THE TRANSFORMATION OF COMMODITY CAPITAL AND MONEY CAPITAL INTO COMMERCIAL CAPITAL AND MONEY-DEALING CAPITAL (MERCHANT'S CAPITAL) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 16: Commercial Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 17: Commercial Profit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 18: The Turnover of Commercial Capital. Prices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 19. Money-Dealing Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 20: Historical Material on Merchant's Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FIVE: THE DIVISION OF PROFIT INTO INTEREST AND PROFIT OF ENTERPRISE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 21: Interest-Bearing Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 22: Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. \"Natural\" Rate of Interest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 23: Interest and Profit of Enterprise\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 24: Interest-Bearing Capital as the Superficial Form of the Capital Relation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 25: Credit and Fictitious Capital\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 26: Accumulation of Money Capital, and its Influence on the Rate of Interest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 27: The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 28: Means of Circulation and CApital. The Views of Tooke and Fullarton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 29: Banking Capital's Component Parts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 30: Money Capital and Real Capital: I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 31: Money Capital and Real Capital: II (Continuation)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Transformation of Money into Loan Capital\u003cbr\u003e2. Transformation of Capital or Revenue into Money that is Transformed into Loan Capital\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 32: Money Capital and Real Capital: III (Conclusion) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 33: The Means of Circulation under the Credit System\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 34: The Currency Principle and the English Bank Legislation of 1844\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 35: Precious Metal and Rate of Exchange\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Movement of the Gold Reserve\u003cbr\u003e2. The Exchange Rate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 36: Pre-Capitalist Relations \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART SIX: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SURPLUS PROFIT INTO GROUND-RENT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 37: Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 38: Differential Rent in General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 39: The First Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent I)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 40: The Second Form of Differential Rent (Differential Rent II)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 41: Differential Rent II - First Case: Price of Production Constant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 42: Differential Rent II - Second Case: Price of Production Falling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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Necessary Means of Subsistence and Luxury Items\u003cbr\u003e5. The Mediation of the Exchanges by Monetary Circulation\u003cbr\u003e6. The Constant Capital in Department I\u003cbr\u003e7. Variable Capital and Surplus-Value in the Two Departments\u003cbr\u003e8. The Constant Capital in Both Departments\u003cbr\u003e9. A Look Back at Adam Smith, Storch and Ramsay\u003cbr\u003e10. Capital and Revenue: Variable Capital and Wages\u003cbr\u003e11. Replacement of the Fixed Capital\u003cbr\u003e(a) Replacement of the Depreciation Component in the Money Form\u003cbr\u003e(b) Replacement of the Fixed Capital in Kind\u003cbr\u003e(c) Results\u003cbr\u003e12. The Reproduction of the Money Material\u003cbr\u003e13. Destutt de Tracy's Theory of Reproduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 21: Accumulation and Reproduction on an Expanded Scale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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The history of Marxism, in other words, is the story of those who brought Marx''s ideas into play, transforming a sweeping but fractious and occasionally abstruse view of historical and social forces into a coherent plan of action. Christina Morina''s illuminating book focuses on the first generation of Marxists who turned the work and ideas of one social theorist, one among many, into one of the most powerful transnational political movements in modern history.The Invention Of Marxism is therefore a group portrait, featuring such figures as Rosa Luxemburg, Max Adler, Jean Jaurès, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, and Vladimir Lenin  German, French, Russian, Czech  whose lives became dedicated to interpreting and applying Marxist thought. They were the vehicles by which his ideas were read, debated, and gradually adopted in socialist movements across Europe. 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Dress Rehearsal in St. Petersburg, 1905\/06 CONCLUSION: From Marx to Marxism: Fieldworkers, Bookworms, and Adventurers","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732813295959,"sku":"9780198852087","price":34.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198852087.jpg?v=1719998509"},{"product_id":"the-real-north-korea-9780199390038","title":"The Real North Korea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. 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The party and the world Philip Bowring; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738337096023,"sku":"9781108822619","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"marx-in-the-anthropocene-9781108844154","title":"Marx in the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFacing global climate crisis, Karl Marx''s ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx''s ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx''s ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. 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The intellectual relationship of Marx and Engels revisited from an ecological perspective; 3. Lukács's theory of metabolism as the foundation of ecosocialist realism; Part II. A Critique of Productive Forces in the Anthropocene; 4. Monism and the non-identity of nature; 5. The revival of utopian socialism and the productive forces of capital; Part III. Towards Degrowth Communism: 6. Marx as a degrowth communist; 7. The abundance of wealth in degrowth communism; Conclusion; References; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738344173911,"sku":"9781108844154","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781108844154.jpg?v=1723811953"},{"product_id":"if-youre-an-egalitarian-how-come-youre-so-rich-9780674006935","title":"If Youre an Egalitarian How Come Youre So Rich","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, G. A. Cohen argues that egalitarian justice is not only a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. 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But it is always dangerous to assume that the jokes do not carry a point...[Cohen's book is] a strikingly personal address, fusing autobiography and the history of ideas with political philosophy, and ending not only with the weighty issue of how far personal attitudes must feature within the subject matter of justice itself, but with the more disconcerting question of how far the disciplines of living effectively under capitalism are bound to prove lethal for the soul...At one level, Cohen's book is largely an ingenious and agreeably frank casuistry of the ethics of professorial income management, but at another and more consequential level, it is a most imaginative deployment of personal ethical discomfort to pin down, and press home, a deep evasion at the center of this majority vision of social justice under capitalism. 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As Giroux outlines our dire need for critical thought, there is no thinker with more of a finger on the pulse! * Robin Goodman, Professor of English, Florida State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eTo say this book is topical and socially important would be vast understatements as the stakes include democracy itself. This book is excellent for typifying Giroux’s habitually careful scholarship, hard-hitting and compelling arguments, analytic and systematic thought, wide-ranging use of critical scholarship, literary references, and mass media, and devising of new terms to describe new social realities and imagine alternatives.  A terrific read, an extremely important intervention.  I can’t wait to teach it. * Kenneth J. 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