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100 1 _aCleaver, Harry,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Fragile Juggernaut :
_bMarx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis /
_cHarry Cleaver.
246 3 _aMarx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2025.
264 4 _c©2025
300 _a1 online resource (487 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025
490 1 _aStudies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work ;
_v6
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tForeword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Work, the Vulnerable Heart of Capitalism -- 2 “Class” and Class Struggle -- 3 Capitalism, the Fragile Juggernaut -- 4 What Constitutes a Crisis? -- 2 Marx & Engels’ Studies of Crisies, 1843−1895 -- 1 The Early Studies: 1842−1852 -- 1.1 Paris and Manchester -- 1.2 Brussels -- 1.3 Paris -- 1.4 Cologne -- 1.5 London -- 2 Years of Theory, 1857−1867 -- 2.1 From Notes to Weighty Tomes -- 2.2 The First International (1864–1876) -- 3 After Capital, 1867−1895 -- 3.1 A New Terrain of Struggle: Electoral Politics -- 3.2 Continuing Conflicts within the First International -- 3.3 War and the Paris Commune -- 3.4 Revisions and Translations -- 3.5 Working Class Parties and Debates -- 3.6 Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program -- 3.7 Engels: Anti-Dühring -- 3.8 Engels: Socialism: Utopian & Scientific -- 3.9 Engels: the Dialectics of Nature -- 3.10 Periodical Crisis Becomes Permanent Stagnation? -- 3.11 The Second International -- 3.12 Engels: Sources and Circulation of Crises -- 3 Marx’s Theory of Accumulation -- 1 A “Labor” Theory of Value? -- 2 The Material Circuits of Accumulation -- 3 Three Observations -- 4 Omnipresent Conflict; Omnipresent Struggle -- 5 Conditions of Reproduction -- 6 Accumulation in Terms of “Value” -- 6.1 The Substance of Value -- 6.2 The Measure of Value -- 6.3 The Form of Value -- 4 The Possibilities of Crisis -- 1 Markets & Crisis -- 2 And in Capitalism Per Se -- 3 Possibilities of Crisis in the First Stage of the Circuit: Investment -- 3.1 Possible Crises in Gathering Enough Money, M -- 3.2 Possible Crises in Hiring in the Labor Market, L – P -- 3.3 Possible Crises of Hiring in the Labor Market, M – LP -- 3.4 Possible Crises for Buyers of the Means of Production, M – MP -- 4 Possibilities of Crisis in the Second Stage of the Circuit: Production -- 4.1 Possible Crises with Labor-Power, LP in … P … -- 4.2 Possible Crises in Means of Production, MP in … P … -- 4.3 Possible Crises Caused by a Rising Organic Composition of Capital -- 4.4 Possible Crises Due to a Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall -- 5 Possibilities of Crisis in the Third Stage of the Circuit: Sales -- 5.1 Possible Crises in Selling Slaves, C(LP) – M′ -- 5.2 Possible Crises in Selling C(MS)’ or C(MP)’ -- 5.3 Credit, Debt, and Commercial Crisis -- 5.4 Summarizing -- 5 Predispositions to Crisis -- 1 Predispositions in the First Stage of the Circuit: Investment -- 1.1 Forces Limiting Access to Money for Investment, M -- 1.2 Forces Interfering with the Supply of Labor-Power, LP -- 1.3 Forces Causing a Shortage in the Supply of the Means of Production, MP -- 2 Predispositions in the Second Stage: Production -- 2.1 Predispositions to Breakdowns in Labor-Power, LP -- 2.2 Predispositions to Breakdowns in the Means of Production, MP -- 2.3 Predispositions to Increasing the Organic Composition of Capital -- 2.4 Predispositions to a Falling Rate of Profit Tendency and Its Crises -- 3 Predispositions in the Third Stage of the Circuit: Sales -- 3.1 Predispositions to Crises in Selling Slaves, C(LP) – M′ -- 3.2 Predisposition to Crises in Markets for C(MS)’ or C(MP)’ -- 3.3 Predispositions to Credit Crises -- 4 The Circulation of Breakdown -- 4.1 Quantitative and Qualitative Change -- 4.2 Circulation of Crisis within Individual Circuits -- 4.3 Circulation of Crisis among Interconnected Circuits -- 5 Linkages among Tendencies -- 6 Offsetting Strategies and Their Contradictions -- 1 Force -- 2 Laws: Writing and Enforcing -- 3 Ideology: Ideas, Institutions and Behavior -- 4 Strategic Ideas -- 5 Apologetic Ideas -- 6 Structural Changes -- 7 Offsets in the First Stage of the Circuit: Investment -- 7.1 Getting Enough Money -- 7.2 Fixing the Supply of Labor-Power -- 7.3 Offsetting Crises in Buying the Means of Production, M – MP -- 8 Offsets in the Second Stage of the Circuit: Production, … P … -- 8.1 Countering Breakdowns in Labor-Power -- 8.2 Countering Breakdowns in the Means of Production -- 8.3 Offsets to Crises Due to Rising Organic Composition of Capital -- 8.4 Offsets to the Falling Rate of Profit Tendency -- 9 Offsets in the Third Stage of the Circuit: Sales -- 9.1 Dealing with Crises in Selling Slaves, C(LP) – M′ -- 9.2 Dealing with Crises in Selling C(MS)’ or C(MP)’ -- 9.3 Dealing with Crises in Selling the Means of Production, C(MP)’ – M′ -- 9.4 Countering Credit and Commercial Crises -- 10 Offsets to the Circulation of Breakdown -- 10.1 Dealing with Qualitative Change -- 10.2 Blunting Circulation within Individual Circuits -- 10.3 Blunting Circulation among Interconnected Circuits -- 7 Crises as Solutions to the Contradictions of Accumulation -- 1 In the First Stage of the Circuit: LP – M/M – LP -- 2 In the Second Stage of the Circuit: …P… -- 3 In the Third Stage of the Circuit: C′ – M′ -- 8 Crisis and Revolution -- 1 Revolution: Another Amoebic Term -- 2 “Revolution” as Used by Marx and Engels -- Appendix 1: Note to Polish Readers (2016) -- Appendix 2: Annotated Bibliography of Marx and Engels’ Writings on Crisis -- Index.
520 _aWhether loving or hating it, many visualize capitalism as an unstoppable juggernaut. For those of us who would defeat it, we must identify its weaknesses. Fortunately, Marx and Engels’ writings on “crisis” reveal them. They show how its endless imposition of exploitative and alienating work creates such antagonistic conflicts everywhere as to make it, ultimately, a far more fragile monster than it first appears. Each of its efforts to shape social relationships, subordinating them to the work of commodity production and its control over society, has been and can be thrown into crisis by those of us resisting its way of life and seeking to create more appealing alternatives.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCapitalism
_xSocial aspects
_zEurope.
650 0 _aFinancial crises
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aFinancial crises
_zEurope
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aMarxian economics.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe Fragile Juggernaut : Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
_z9789004708365
_w(DLC) 2024030807
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
830 0 _aStudies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work ;
_v6.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004708631
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