Special introduction -- Marx and modernity -- Marx's economic theory and the prospects for socialism -- Marx's theory of history reappraised -- Marx and the future of post-capitalist society -- Marx and distributive justice -- Marx and the environmental problem -- The theory of labour money: implications of Marx's critique for the Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) -- The Japanese concept of civil society and Marx's -- Marx and J.S. Mill on socialism -- A bioeconomic Marx-Weber paradigm -- Japanese 'cultural' eclecticism' and a reinterpretation of Marx and Keynes on the instabilities of capitalism -- The Brussels Democratic Association and the Communist Manifesto -- Louis Blanc, associationism in France, and Marx -- Editorial problems in establishing a new edition of the Germany Ideology

1. Marxian economics
2. Socialism
3. Communism