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INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE AGENDA .................................................................................... 1 1 Marxism as Emancipatory Social Science ............................................................................................... 1 2 The anchor: Capitalism ............................................................................................................................ 2 3 The Critique of Capitalism ...................................................................................................................... 3 4 The Theory of Transformation................................................................................................................. 3 PART II. THE THEORY OF HISTORY .............................................................................................................. 4 5 & 6 The Classical Marxist Theory of History ................................................................................................. 4 7 Critiques and reconstructions ................................................................................................................... 5 8 The Classical Marxist Theory of the History of Capitalism’s Future ...................................................... 7 9 Capitalist Dynamics: a sketch of a theory of capitalist trajectory ............................................................ 8 PART III. CLASS STRUCTURE ......................................................................................................................... 9 10 What is Class? ......................................................................................................................................... 9 11 The Concept of Exploitation .................................................................................................................. 10 12 Rethinking the Class Structure of Capitalism ........................................................................................ 12 13 Class and Gender .................................................................................................................................. 13 14 Class and Race ....................................................................................................................................... 15 PART IIV. CLASS FORMATION ...................................................................................................................... 17 15 Basic Concepts of class formation ......................................................................................................... 17 16 Rationality, solidarity and class struggle ............................................................................................... 17 17 Dilemmas of Working Class Collective Action ..................................................................................... 18 18 Class Compromise ................................................................................................................................. 18 PART IV. THE THEORY OF THE STATE AND POLITICS ......................................................................... 20 19 What is “Politics”? What is “the state”? ................................................................................................ 20 20 What, if anything, makes the capitalist state a capitalist state? Is the state a patriarchal state? ........... 21 21 The State & Accumulation: functionality and contradiction ................................................................. 22 22 The State and the Working Class: The democratic capitalist state and social Stability ......................... 24 PART V. IDEOLOGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS ............................................................................................. 25 23 What is Ideology? .................................................................................................................................. 25 24 Mystification: ideology as false consciousness ..................................................................................... 26 25 Ideological Hegemony and