Karl Marx's Realist Critique of Capitalism: Freedom, Alienation, and Socialism

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- References -- Part I Human Development and Freedom -- 2 Human Development -- The Basic Structure of Marx's Critique of Capitalism -- Human Development as the Development of Powers -- Needs -- The Interaction Between Powers and Needs -- Human Development and Real Politics -- References -- 3 Freedom -- The Idea of a Human Nature -- Consciousness, Self-Direction, Freedom -- Freedom as Self-Direction -- The Value of Freedom -- References -- Part II Alienation and Democracy -- 4 The First Theory of Alienation -- References -- 5 Democracy -- References -- 6 From Realisation-Oriented to Agent-Centred Political Theory -- References -- Part III Alienation: The Unfreedom of Capitalism -- 7 Alienation and Unfreedom -- The Nature of Alienation -- Alienation from Product -- Alienation from the Labour Process -- Alienation from Species-Being -- Alienation from Others -- References -- 8 The Socialist Alternative -- Socialism as Emancipation -- Participatory Planning -- The Hierarchical Division of Labour -- Distributing According to Need -- Weber: Socialism Contra Bureaucratic Domination -- Participatory Planning and Hayek's Challenge -- References -- 9 Radical Theory and Revolutionary Practice -- Revolutionary Midwives and the Birth of the Future -- Alienation and the Revolutionary Contradictions of Capitalism -- The Revolutionary Theorist as Midwife -- References -- 10 Towards a New World -- References -- Appendix: A Brief Overview of the (Other) Principal Interpretations of Marx's Normative Commitments -- (A) The Amoralist Reading -- (B) The Moralist Reading -- (C) An Ethical Human Nature -- (D) Internal Critique Based on Ethical Principles -- Bibliography -- Index.