System of Economic Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery

Contents

 * Introduction
 * Chapter I. Of the Economic Science
 * §1. Opposition between Fact and Right in Social Economy
 * §2. Inadequacy of Theories and Criticisms
 * Chapter II. Of Value
 * §1. Opposition of Value in Use and Value in Exchange
 * §2. Constitution of Value; Definition of Wealth
 * §3. Application of the Law of Proportionality of Values
 * Chapter III. Economic Evolutions.—First Period.—The Division of Labor
 * §1. Antagonistic Effects of the Principle of Division
 * §2. Impotence of Palliatives.—MM. Blanqui, Chevalier, Dunoyer, Rossi, and Passy
 * Chapter IV. Second Period.—Machinery
 * §1. Of the Function of Machinery in its Relations to Liberty
 * §2. Machinery's Contradiction.—Origin of Capital and Wages
 * §3. Of Preservatives against the Disastrous Influence of Machinery
 * Chapter V. Third Period.—Competition
 * §1. Necessity of Competition
 * §2. Subversive Effects of Competition, and the Destruction of Liberty thereby
 * §3. Remedies against Competition
 * Chapter VI. Fourth Period.—Monopoly
 * §1. Necessity of Monopoly
 * §2. The Disasters in Labor and the Perversion of Ideas caused by Monopoly
 * Chapter VII. Fifth Period.—Police, or Taxation
 * §1. Synthetic Idea of the Tax.—Point of Departure and Development of this Idea
 * §2. Antinomy of the Tax
 * §3. Disastrous and Inevitable Consequences of the Tax. (Provisions, Sumptuary Laws, Rural and Industrial Police, Patents, Trade-Marks, etc.)
 * Chapter VIII. Of the Responsibility of Man and of God, under the Law of Contradiction, or a Solution of the Problem of Providence
 * §1. The Culpability of Man.—Exposition of the Myth of the Fall
 * §2. Exposition of the Myth of Providence.—Retrogression of God+