Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary (Repost)

In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.Content: Chapter 1 Primary Historical Relations, or the Basic Aspects of Social Activity (With Engels) (1845–6) (pages 57–59): Chapter 2 The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas … (With Engels) (1845–6) (pages 60–62): Chapter 3 The Formation of Classes … (With Engels) (1845–6) (pages 63–64): Chapter 4 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) (pages 65–66): Chapter 5 Labour Rent (1894) (pages 67–68): Chapter 6 Karl Marx (Engels) (1878) (pages 69–71): Chapter 7 Letter to Joseph Bloch (Engels) (1890) (pages 72–73): Chapter 8 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation (1867) (pages 79–81): Chapter 9 Development of the Division of Labour (With Engels) (1845–6) (pages 82–89): Chapter 10 Bourgeois and Proletarians (With Engels) (1845) (pages 90–92): Chapter 11 Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation (1845) (pages 93–94): Chapter 12 Co?Operation (1867) (pages 95–99): Chapter 13 Cardinal Facts of Capitalist Production (1894) (page 100): Chapter 14 The Two Factors of A Commodity: Use Value and Value (1867) (pages 105–107): Chapter 15 From Value, Price and Profit (1898) (pages 108–119): Chapter 16 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof (1867) (pages 120–126): Chapter 17 The General Formula for Capital (1867) (pages 127–129): Chapter 18 Division of Labour and Manufacture (1867) (pages 135–142): Chapter 19 Machinery and Modern Industry (1867) (pages 143–152): Chapter 20 The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (1867) (pages 157–160): Chapter 21 The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (1894) (pages 161–162): Chapter 22 Progressive Production of A Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army (1867) (pages 163–165): Chapter 23 The Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain (1858) (pages 166–168): Chapter 24 The Economic Crisis in Europe (1856) (pages 169–171): Chapter 25 Modern Industry and Agriculture (1867) (pages 172–173): Chapter 26 Foreign Trade (1894) (pages 179–180): Chapter 27 Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople (1867) (pages 181–182): Chapter 28 The Crisis in England (1857) (pages 183–185): Chapter 29 British Incomes in India (1887) (pages 186–189): Chapter 30 The Indian Revolt (1857) (pages 190–193): Chapter 31 The Factory Acts (1867) (pages 199–203): Chapter 32 The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production (1894) (pages 204–207): Chapter 33 Fixed Capital and the Development of the Productive Forces of Society (1857–8) (pages 208–211): Chapter 34 The Rise of the Revolutionary Proletariat (With Engels) (1848) (pages 219–224): Chapter 35 Proletarians and Communists (With Engels) (1848) (pages 225–226): Chapter 36 From the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) (pages 227–232): Chapter 37 From the Civil War in France (1871) (pages 233–244): Chapter 38 From Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) (pages 245–248): Chapter 39 Mourning Marxism (pages 255–258): Ronald AronsonChapter 40 Marx Redux (pages 259–263): David HarveyChapter 41 The Return of Karl Marx (pages 264–272): John CassidyChapter 42 The Connected and the Disconnected (pages 277–291): Jeremy RifkinChapter 43 The Architecture of A New Consensus (pages 292–298): Thomas FrankChapter 44 Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods (pages 299–306): William Julius WilsonChapter 45 Fortress L.A. (pages 307–314): Mike DavisChapter 46 America's Immigration “Problem” (pages 319–325): Saskia SassenChapter 47 “These Dark Satanic Mills” (pages 326–335): William GreiderChapter 48 From the Great Transformation to the Global Free Market (pages 336–340): John GrayChapter 49 Slouching Toward Seattle (pages 345–351): Jeff FauxChapter 50 Seattle Diary (pages 352–360): Jeff St. ClairChapter 51 Not Just A Seattle Sequel (pages 361–365): Bruce ShapiroChapter 52 Class Analysis, History, and Emancipation (pages 371–378): Erik Olin WrightChapter 53 From Redistribution to Recognition? (pages 379–386): Nancy Fraser