Chapter Outline

I. Introduction

II. The Dialectic

III. The Dialectical Method

A. Fact and Value

B. Reciprocal Relations

C. Past, Present, Future

D. No Inevitabilities

E. Actors and Structures

IV. Human Nature

A. Biographical Sketch

B. Labor

V. Alienation

VI. The Structures of Capitalist Society

A. Commodities

B. Fetishism of Commodities

C. Capital, Capitalists, and Proletariat

D. Exploitation

E. Class Conflict

F. Capitalism as a Good Thing

VII. Materialist Conception of History

A. Ideology

B. Freedom, Equality, and Ideology

C. Religion

D. Communism

VIII. Criticisms

IX. Summary