Historical Materialism and the Economics of Karl Marx

Historical Materialism and the Economics of Karl Marx
By Benedetto Croce
Translated By C.M. Meredith
With an Introduction by A.D. Lindsay
Fellow and Lecturer of Balliol College, Oxford

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CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Concerning the Scientific Form of Historical Materialism
Chapter 2. Concerning Historical Materialism Viewed as a Science of Social Economics
Chapter 3. Concerning the Interpretation and Criticism of Some Concepts of Marxism
I. Of the Scientific Problem in Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’
II. Marx’s Problem and Pure Economics (General Economic Science)
III. Concerning the Limitation of the Materialistic Theory of History
IV. Of Scientific Knowledge in Face of Social Problems
V. Of Ethical Judgment in Face of Social Problems
VI. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Recent Interpretations of the Marxian Theory of Value and Controversies Concerning Them
Chapter 5. A Criticism of the Marxian Law of the Fall in the Rate of Profits
Chapter 6. On the Economic Principle
Two Letters to Professor V. Pareto