Socialism and Commodity Production

Essay in Marx Revival

Bibliographic Data

ID19903792
AuthorsParesh Chattopadhyay (corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-08-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSocialism and Commodity Production: Essay in Marx Revival (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004377516
OpenAlexW2805759586
Open LibraryOL62098526M
ISBN9789004377516
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDpZnruQEACAAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received6

'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

Commodity · Communism · Economics · Keynesian economics · Market economy · Microeconomics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Production (economics) · Socialism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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