Socialism and Commodity Production: Essay in Marx Revival

314 Pages·2018·1.07 MB·English

by  Paresh Chattopadhyay

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Contents
Preface xi
Prologue 1
Twentieth-CenturySocialism 2
SocialismasMinorityRule 4
Lenin’sRole 4
TheRelevanceofMarx 13
ACaricatureofMarx’sSocialism 15
1 OnSocialism:AssociationofFreeIndividuals 27
(Pre)conditionsofSocialism 29
AssociatedModeofProduction 47
OwnershipRelation 48
ExchangeRelations 50
Distribution/Allocation 52
LabouringIndividualunderSocialism 56
2 CommodityProduction 63
FromCommoditytoCapital 64
ParadoxesandContradictions 73
OntheValueForm 79
CommodityCirculation:PossibilityofCrisis 95
3 SimpleCommodityProduction 100
TheProblem 100
DiscussionafterEngels 102
TheCritics 104
CriticismsDiscussed 108
Conclusion 115
4 CommodityProductionandSocialisminMarx’sFollowers 118
TheFirstFollowers:AugustBebelandKarlKautsky 118
MarxiansafterKautsky 121
Non-Bolsheviks:Korsch,Lukács,Rühle,Hilferding 121
BolsheviksonSocialismandCommodityProduction 124
viii contents
5 OnSocialistAccounting 139
TheLabourProcess 140
PointofDeparture 141
HowtoProceed 144
LabourTime:NeglectedAspects 148
LabourTimeandNon-labourTime 152
SocialistAccountingFramework 155
OnPlanningandtheUnitofCalculation 157
6 AnarchistCommunism 169
PeterKropotkin 169
Kropotkin’sAnarchistCommunism 170
CarloCafiero 176
AnarchismandMarx:TheRelation 178
7 ConcerningGuildSocialism 186
Introduction 186
GuildSocialismasDemocracy 188
DistributionandAllocationinGuildSocialism 189
ConsumersandProducers 192
TransformationoftheExistingSociety 193
AmbiguitiesandContradictions 195
8 OnMarketSocialism 199
OriginofMarketSocialism 200
TheCompetitiveSolution 209
Criticisms 212
FeasibleSocialism 217
AnalyticalMarketSocialism 219
MarketSocialismProper 221
MarketSocialism–‘Marxian’ 223
MarketSocialismisCapitalism 227
9 TheProblematicofaNon-capitalistRoadtoSocialism 232
Capital’sPositiveContribution 232
TheControversy 233
ControversyContinued 241
FurtherConsiderations 244
contents ix
Epilogue.IllusionoftheEpoch:Twentieth-CenturySocialism 249
Preliminaries 249
NatureofTwentieth-CenturySocialism 251
TheParty-State 267
TheFundamentalQuestion 274
References 285
Index 298