Routledge library editions, volume 4, The breakdown of capitalism: a history of the idea in Western Marxism, 1883-1983

1. Breakdown theory and intellectual history : an introduction to the relevant issues -- 2. Points of reference in Marx's theory of capitalist development -- 3. Breakdown theory in the Second International : the political construction of the orthodox concept -- 4. Neo-orthodoxy and the general analysis of a politicized economy -- 5. Breakdown theory and the American Marxists : the theoretical spectrum of the early years -- 6. The anti-orthodox response to crash and recovery : superstructural models of collapse -- 7. Breakdown theory and the American Marxists : abandonment and retrieval in the post-war period -- 8. Conclusions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Breakdown theory and intellectual history: An introduction to the relevant issues -- 2 Points of reference in Marx's theory of capitalist development -- Marx's critique of classical political economy: The creation of logical space -- The law of the tendency of a falling rate of profit -- Crises and underconsumption -- Breakdown and the open dialectic: The status of laws -- 3 Breakdown theory in the Second International: The political construction of the orthodox concept -- Capital in the context of the first Great Depression, 1873-1895 -- The revisionist assault and the postulation of breakdown theory -- The orthodox response -- 4 Neo-orthodoxy and the general analysis of a politicized economy -- Finance capital: Reinstating the dialectic -- Permanent crisis and class consciousness -- The emergence of anti-orthodox forms in Europe -- 5 Breakdown theory and the American Marxists: The theoretical spectrum of the early years -- Resistance to revisionism -- Anti-orthodox beginnings -- Neo-orthodoxy and the second Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- 6 The anti-orthodox response to crash and recovery: Superstructural models of collapse -- Anti-orthodoxy and the rejection of economic primacy: Critical theory -- Anti-orthodoxy and the rejection of historical specificity: French structuralism -- Neo-orthodox continuations: The submerged tradition -- 7 Breakdown theory and the American Marxists: Abandonment and retrieval in the post-war period -- The tenuous nature of post-war neo-orthodoxy -- Neo-orthodox mediations -- 8 Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index