Intro -- Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- General Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marx and Modernity -- SECTION I MARX READINGS -- Part 1 Marx's Vision of History: "Historical Materialism" -- 1 Primary Historical Relations, or The Basic Aspects of Social Activity (with Engels) -- 2 The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas . . . (with Engels) -- 3 The Formation of Classes . . . (with Engels) -- 4 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy -- 5 Labour Rent -- 6 Karl Marx (Engels) -- 7 Letter to Joseph Bloch (Engels) -- Part 2 The Juggernaut of Capitalist Modernity: The Revolutionary Bourgeoisie, the End of Tradition, and New Social Powers -- 8 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation -- 9 Development of the Division of Labour (with Engels) -- 10 Bourgeois and Proletarians (with Engels) -- 11 Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation -- 12 Co-operation -- 13 Cardinal Facts of Capitalist Production -- Part 3 Marx's Labor Theory of Value: The Hidden Social Relationship beneath Capitalism's Distorted "Economic" Surface -- 14 The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use Value and Value -- 15 From Value, Price and Profit -- 16 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof -- 17 The General Formula for Capital -- Part 4 From Manufacture to Modern Industry: The First and Second Industrial Revolutions -- 18 Division of Labour and Manufacture -- 19 Machinery and Modern Industry -- Part 5 The Downside of Capitalist Growth: Overpopulation, Poverty, Speculative Crises, and Environmental Devastation -- 20 The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- 21 The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall -- 22 Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army -- 23 The Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain -- 24 The Economic Crisis in Europe.