6 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  Chapter One
  SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM
7 Capitalism and Socialism
8 Socialist Theory and the Working-Class Movement
10 The Marxist Science of Society
  Chapter Two
  MATERIALISM AND THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY
14 The Materialist Conception of History
15 Social Relations and the Laws of Social Development
17 The Foundations of Social Science
21 General Laws and Particular Events
22 Human Intentions and Objective Law
26 The Law of Progress
28 Scientific Theory and Social Practice
31 The Theory of the Working-Class Movement
33 Social Science and Communism
  Chapter Three
  THE MODE OF PRODUCTION
35 Production of the Means of Life
36 Production and Property
39 Exploitation
44 Classes and Class Struggles
46 Social-Economic Formations
  Chapter Four
  THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
55 Development of the Forces of Production
58 Spontaneous or Unplanned Development
59 Changes of Relations of Production
64 Class Struggle as the Motive Force of Social Change
68 Individuals and Classes
70 The State and Revolution
73 Progress and Exploitation
76 The Socialist Revolution
  Chapter Five
  THE SOCIAL SUPERSTRUCTURE
79 The Ideas and Institutions of Society
81 Social Being and Social Consciousness
83 Basis and Superstructure
87 The Methodology of Historical Explanation
90 Historical Materialism versus "Vulgar Marxism"
  Chapter Six
  CLASS IDEAS AND CLASS RULE
96 The Establishment
99 Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas
100 The Role of Intellectuals
103 The Transformation of the Superstructure
107 Institutions, Ideas and Classes
  Chapter Seven
  SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
110 Social Production and Social Ownership
111 The Road to Socialism
116 Socialist Planning
120 From Socialism to Communism
120 “To each according to his needs"
122 The Status of Labour
124 Division of Labour and the Individual
126 A Single Form of Public Property
  Chapter Eight
  TOWARDS A HUMAN WAY OF LIFE
130 Measures of Transition from Socialism to Communism
131 The State in the Transition to Communism
133 The Role of the Communist Party
135 The Socialist Establishment
138 Man’s Mastery of Mature
140 The End of Alienation and Estrangement
142 The Future of Communist Society
145 Conclusions
148 READING LIST
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