Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1995.
I. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism. 1. The separation of the 'economic' and the 'political' in capitalism ; 2. Rethinking base and superstructure ; 3. Class as process and relationship ; 4. History or technological determinism? ; 5. History or teleology? Marx versus Weber
II. Democracy Against Capitalism. 6. Labour and democracy, ancient and modern ; 7. The demos versus 'we, the people' : from ancient to modern conceptions of citizenship ; 8. Civil society and the politics of identity ; 9. Capitalism and human emancipation: race, gender and democracy.
Democracy against capitalism : renewing historical materialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood. ISBN 9781784782443. Published by Verso in 2016. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.