The Marxism of Crisis and the Political Morphology of Capital  Matteo Mandarini Note on the Translations 1 Introduction (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni. Critica del capitalismo e ideologie della crisi tra anni Venti e anni Trenta) 2 Councils and State in Weimar Germany (with Guido De Masi) 3 The Theories of Breakdown and Organised Capitalism in the Debates of ‘Historical Extremism’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni) 4 ‘Theory of the Crisis and the Problem of Constitution: In the Margin to the Konstitutionsproblematik’ (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni) 5 Korsch in Italy 6 Gramsci’s Marxism and the Theory of Transition 7 Corporate Pluralism, Mass Democracy and Authoritarian State 8 From the Crisis of the ‘Self-Organised Market’ to the ‘Authoritarian State’: Notes on the Relationship between Political Economy and Critical Theory (from Il Politico e le trasformazioni) 9 Political System, Rationalisation, ‘Social Brain’ Bibliography Index