Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. On Reading Marx: Method -- 2. The Commodity: Labor, Value, Money -- 3. The Theory of Capital and Surplus Value -- 4. Production under Capitalism -- 5. The Reproduction of Capital -- 6. The Equalization of the Rate of Profit -- 7. The Division of Surplus...

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