At top of cover page "Progress Marxist-Leninist theory" Translation into English from revised Russian edition. Progress Publishers 1977

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Chapter 1. The subject-matter of political economy -- Chapter 2. Pre-capitalist modes of production -- Chapter 3. The stages of development of capitalism, commodity production, money -- Chapter 4. Capital and surplus value wages under capitalism -- Chapter 5. The general law of capitalist accumulation -- Chapter 6. The circuit and turnover of capital -- Chapter 7. The forms of capital and surplus value -- Chapter 8. Rent, the development of capitalism in agriculture -- Chapter 9. The reproduction of social capital and economic crisis -- Imperialism-monopoly capitalism, the highest stage of capitalism -- A. The Laws of development of monopoly capitalism -- Chapter 10. concentration of production and monopolies. Finance capital and the financial oligarchy -- Chapter 11. Export of capital. Economic and territorial division of the world -- Chapter 12. The place of imperialism in history -- B. The crisis of world capitalism -- Chapter 13. The essence of the general crisis of capitalism : the splitting of the world into two socio-economic systems and the struggle between them -- Chapter 14. The development of state-monopoly capitalism -- Chapter 15. The crisis and break-up of the colonial system of imperialism : economic peculiarities of developing countries -- Chapter 16. Special features of operation of the law of surplus value under contemporary capitalism -- Chapter 17. Special features of the reproduction of capital in modern conditions -- Chapter 18. The crisis of world capitalism : increasing unevenness of development : sharpening of inter-imperialist contradictions -- Chapter 19. Intensification of monopoly oppression and social contradictions in imperialist countries -- Chapter 20. Critique of modern bourgeois and reformist economic theories -- Conclusion