Prologue: the crisis of capitalism this time around --
Introduction: On contradiction --
Part One: The foundational contradictions. Use value and exchange value --
The social value of labor and its representation by money --
Private property and the capitalist state --
Private appropriation and common wealth --
Capital and labour --
Capital as process or thing? --
The contradictory unity of production and realization --
Part Two: The moving contradictions. Technology, work, and human disposability --
Divisions of labor --
Monopoly and competition: centralisation and decentralisation --
Uneven geographical developments and the production of space --
Disparities of income and wealth --
Social reproduction --
Freedom and domination --
Part three: The dangerous contradictions. Endless compound growth --
Capital's relation to nature --
The revolt of human nature: universal alienation --
Conclusion: Prospects for a happy but contested future: the promise of revolutionary humanism --
Epilogue: Ideas for political praxis.

What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what." --from the Introduction To modern Western society, capitalism is the