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System of Economic Contradictions: Volume I

or, the Philosophy of Misery

1846

Translation by Benjamin R. Tucker

Destruam et ædificabo[1]

Deuteronomy: c. 32

System of Economic Contradictions: Volume I

Chapter I: Of the Economic Science

Chapter II: Of Value.

Chapter III: Economic Evolutions – First Period – The Division of Labour

Chapter IV: Second Period – Machinery

• §I Of the function of machinery in its relations to liberty
• §II Machinery’s contradiction – Origin of capital and wage-labour
• §III Of preservatives against the disastrous influence of machinery

Chapter V: Third Period – Competition 

• §I Necessity of competition.
• §II Subversive effects of competition, and the destruction of liberty thereby
• §III Remedies against competition

Chapter VI: Fourth Period – Monopoly.

• §I Necessity of monopoly
• §II The disasters in labour and the perversion of ideas caused by monopoly.

Chapter VII: Fifth Period – Police, Or Taxation.

Endnotes

[1] ‘I shall destroy and I shall build’ (editor)