The system of free competition and what it is about

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I. The elementary determinations of capitalist business: Social production for private profit

1. What the industrial capitalist does
2. The market
3. The bourgeois state
4. Commercial credit
5. State support of competition that makes use of credit: Legal protection for property endangered by the use of payment promises as money
6. Necessarily ‘false consciousness’ about money, profit, property, market, and state; both ordinary and scientific

II. Accumulation of capital: Expansion of production and commerce

7. Growth
8. Expansion of the market
9. State tasks
10. Loan capital
11. The state as creator of a national credit money
12. The dogma of growth as the good purpose of all economic activity, and the solution to all the problems it creates

III. Increasing growth: The productivity of capitalism

13. Reducing unit costs
14. The market: Where capitalist progress does its work and is put to the test
15. Growth through progress: a new catalog of tasks for the lawgiver
16. Power and powerlessness of credit in the competition for competitiveness
17. The state as promoter, user, and guardian of the credit system
18. Success alongside failure, the standpoint of real and imagined victims & beneficiaries as an opinion-forming productive force

IV. Growth through centralization of capital: The competitive struggle to overcome competition

19. Concentration of capital in one hand
20. The struggle for control over the market
21. The state: Guardian of a capital location
22. The fusion of capital and credit
23. The state as a financial power
24. How the crisis of capital is mastered ideologically

V. The ultimate guarantee of growth: The nation’s imperialist successes

25. The right to growth and its means: a right that is vested but insufficiently realized
26. The ideal market: a claim to possession with guaranteed success
27. The condition for everything: Sovereign power