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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815926403321

Autore

Paresh Chattopadhyay

Titolo

Socialism and Commodity Production [[e-book] ] : Essay in Marx Revival

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018

ISBN

90-04-37751-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages)

Collana

Historical materialism book series ; ; Volume 165

Disciplina

335

Soggetti

Socialism - 21st century

Commercial products

Marxian economics

Capitalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Prologue -- On Socialism: Association of Free Individuals -- Commodity Production -- Simple Commodity Production -- Commodity Production and Socialism in Marx’s Followers -- On Socialist Accounting -- Anarchist Communism -- Concerning Guild Socialism -- On Market Socialism -- The Problematic of a Non-capitalist Road to Socialism -- Epilogue. Illusion of the Epoch: Twentieth-Century Socialism -- Back Matter -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

‘Socialism’ is a word that is now habitually taken to refer to a particular social system that prevailed in different parts of the globe during the twentieth century. This system was defined primarily by single-party rule with public (mainly state) ownership of the means of production along with a centrally planned economy. Its material base was generalised commodity production. The spokespersons of this system claim that this socialism was derived from Marx. Paresh Chattopadhyay’s Socialism and Commodity Production argues the falsity of this claim. On the basis of a comprehensive study of Marx's own texts, as well as a detailed engagement with a wide variety of theorists of socialist economics, it shows that Marx's socialism constituted an ‘Association’ of free individuals in which private ownership, the commodity, wage labour and the state have no place.