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 Unorthodox MarxismAlbert, Michael;  Hahnel, RobinPublisher:  South End Press, USA Year Published:  1978
 Pages:  379pp   ISBN:  0-89608-004-8
 Resource Type:  Book
 
 An attempt to go beyond what the authors describe as "orthodox Marxism."
 
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 Table of Contents
 
 Introduction
 
 Part One:  Laying the Orthodoxy to Rest
 1.	Orthodox Marxism
 i)	The Dialectical Method
 ii)	The Materialist Outlook
 iii)	The Method of Historical Abstraction
 iv)	Historical Materialism
 v)	The Labor Theory of Value
 vi)	The Transformation Problem
 vii)	Accumulation
 viii)	Theory, Socialism and Revolution
 ix)	The Strengths of Orthodox Marxist Theory
 x)	Footnotes
 2. The Orthodoxy's Declining Rate of Relevance
 i)	Orthodox Dialectics
 ii)	The Materialist Outlook
 iii)	Historical Materialism
 iv)	Orthodox Marxist Economic Theory
 v)	Value as More Than Metaphysic
 vi)	A Technical View of Capitalist Crisis
 vii)	What is Economics?
 viii)	Dialogue
 ix)	Footnotes
 
 Part Two:  A Theory of Praxis:  History and Economics
 3. A Social Theory of Praxis
 i)	Methodology
 ii)	Human Beings
 iii)	Society
 iv)	Core Characteristics
 v)	Social change, Revolution, and History
 vi)	Core Characteristics in History
 vii)	Dialogue:  Two Marxisms or One?
 viii)	Footnotes
 4. A Political Economy of Praxis
 i)	Economism in Economic Theory
 ii)	The Qualitative Model
 iii)	Use-Value
 iv)	Commodity Consumption and Markets
 v)	Human Labor
 vi)	Theory of the Capitalist Firm
 vii)	Qualitative Reproduction:  Conclusion
 viii)	Quantitative Reproduction
 ix)	Dialogue:  Value Theory's Value
 x)	Dialogue:  Too Much Economics
 xi)	Footnotes
 
 Part Three:  Race - Sex - Class - Authority:   Totality and Hegemony in the United States
 5. United States:  The Human Centre
 i) Summary Overview
 ii) Core Characteristics in the United States
 iii) The Core Characteristics in Society's Centre
 iv) Class Consciousness
 v) The Impact of a New Class
 vi) Dialogue:  Is All This Really Necessary?
 vii) Footnotes
 
 Part Four:  Goal and Strategy:  A Revolutionary Councilist View
 7. Political Economy of Socialism
 i)	Socialism's Defining Contours
 ii)	Socialist Economy
 iii)	Social Feasibility
 iv)	Politics and the State
 v)	Culture and Everyday Life
 vi)	Dialogue:   A Round Table Debate
 vii)	Footnotes
 8.  The Art of Socialist Revolution
 i)	The General Issues
 ii)	Revolution:  Art or Science
 iii)	Totality:  Focus, Consciousness, and Organization
 iv)	Organization and Revolution
 v)	Revolutionary Process
 vi)	The Roots and Role of Ideology
 vii)	Dialogue:  No Place for Cynicism
 viii)	Footnotes
 9.  Appendices
 i)	Solution to the Transformation Problem
 ii)	The Problem with the Transformation Problem
 iii)	The Wage - Price Vector
 iv)	Use-Value:  A Function of Exchange-Value
 
 Bibliography
 Index
 
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