Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism — A Detailed Critique — Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 NEOLIBERALISM IS BROKEN
Conservative Social-Democracy and Financial Crises
The Delusion of Fictitious Capital
The Progressive Social-Democratic Alternative
CHAPTER 2 — LONG WAVES, SHORT MEMORIES
Overproduction, Profit and Innovation
Uptrends, Downtrends and Accumulation
CHAPTER 3 — WAS MARX RIGHT
Marx’s Law of The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall, and Crises
Marx and the Genesis of the New System — Socialised Capital, Credit, and Co-operatives
Accumulation and The Long Wave
Socialised and Fictitious Capital
Socialised Capital v Fictitious Capital
CHAPTER 4 — THE LONG, DISRUPTED WAVE
Imperialism — The Most Dynamic Stage of Capitalism
Fictitious Capital and the Neoliberal Mindset
A Disrupted and Distorted Wave
The Resumption of the Fifth Wave
CHAPTER 5- THE PROPHETS OF POSTCAPITALISM
Exogenous Technological Change
CHAPTER 6 — TOWARDS THE FREE MACHINE
Scarcity, Marginal Utility and Demand
Machines, Value, Labour and Labour-Power
Labour, Labour-Power and Surplus Value
Technology, Productivity and Profit
Unit Values, Gross and Net Revenue
CHAPTER 7 — BEAUTIFUL TROUBLEMAKERS
The Failure of Social Democracy and the Failure of The Left
The Centrality of The Workplace
Nihilism v Class Consciousness
Cooperatives, Workers Control and Capital Accumulation
Reformist Myths and The Welfare State
End of The Boom and The Limits of Economism
Progressive v Conservative Social Democracy I
Progressive v Conservative Social Democracy II
The Precariat and Financialisation
The Shabby House That Thatcher Built
CHAPTER 8 — ON TRANSITIONS
Mode of Production and Mode of Distribution
Surplus Product and Surplus Value
CHAPTER 9 — THE RATIONAL CASE FOR PANIC
Distribution — Market and State
Reactionary Nationalism v Progressive Internationalist Social-Democracy
CHAPTER 10 — PROJECT ZERO
The Dissolution of Capital Within The Capitalist System
The Social Revolution and The Political Revolution
Democratising and Socialising The Plan
Democratic Planning and Cooperation
Distributionism, Reformism and Economic Nationalism
