Table of Contents Derek Sayer - Marxs Method Ideology Science and Critique in Capital CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I IDEOLOGY: TWO STUDIES 1 SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS 2 THE LANGUAGE OF COMMODITIES^1 1 The Commodity^2 (a) Use-value/exchange-value (b) Exchange-value/value (c) Useful labour/abstract labour 2 Commodity fetishism and the value-form (a) The value-form (b) Commodity fetishism 3 Ideologies of Value (a) The Monetary and Mercantile Systems (b) Samuel Bailey and the 'Verbal Observer' 3 LAWYERS' FEES, RED BEETS, AND MUSIC 1 Marx on Revenues (a) Surplus-value (b) Profit (c) Interest (d) Rent 2 The Trinity Formula (a) Capital-interest (b) Land-rent (c) Labour-wages PART II THE CRITIQUE OF THE ECONOMIC CATEGORIES 4 PROLEGOMENA: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE /GENERAL INTRODUCTION /OF 1857 1 Rational Abstractions (a) Production relations (b) Productive forces 2 Obviously the Scientifically Correct Method?^18 3 Starting-Points and Methods of Presentation 5 TO BRING A SCIENCE BY CRITICISM ... 1 Science as Critique; an Analogy 2 Marx's Analytic (a) 'Peeling out' forms: transhistorical categories reconsidered (b) From phenomenal forms to essential relations 3 A Note on Testing (a) Comparison (b) Prediction 6 ... TO A POINT WHERE IT CAN BE DIALECTICALLY PRESENTED 1 Economic Categories and their Historicity (a) The construction of historical categories (b) Marx's dialectic 2 Concluding Remark: towards the recovery of history APPENDIX THE MANUSCRIPTS OF /CAPITAL/ NOTES Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 BIBLIOGRAPHY PART I KARL MARX AND FREDERICK ENGELS PART II OTHER WORKS CONSULTED INDEX