History, Labour and Freedom: Themes from Marx.

Abstract

Part 1 Historical materialism - exposition and defence: forces and relations of production base and superstructure being, consciousness and roles historical inevitability and revolutionary agency human nature and social change in the Marxist conception of history. Part 2 Historical materialism - criticism and revision: fettering on an argument for historical materialism reconsidering historical materialism restricted and inclusive historical materialism. Part 3 Capitalism, labour and freedom: the dialectic of labour in Marx the labour theory of value and the concept of exploitation are disadvantaged workers who take hazardous jobs forced to take hazardous jobs? the structure of proletarian unfreedom freedom, justice and capitalism.