This book aims to restore Marx¿s original emancipatory idea of socialism, conceived as an association of free individuals centered on working people¿s self- emancipation after the demise of capitalism. Marxist scholar Paresh Chattopadhyay argues that, Marx¿s (and Engels¿s) ideas have been deliberately warped with misinterpretation not only by those who resent these ideas but more consequentially by those who have come to power under the banner of Marx, calling themselves communists. This book challenges those who have inaccurately revised Marx¿s ideas justify their own pursuit of political power.

Introduction1. Marx¿s First Critique of Political Economy2. Marx¿s Notebooks of 1844-18473. Post-capitalist Society: A Marxian Portrait4. On the dialectic of labour in the Critique of Political Economy5. Women¿s Labour and Capital Accumulation6. Marx on the Global Reach of Capital7. Crisis Theory in Marx¿s Economic Manuscripts of early 1860s8. On Market Socialism9. Marx on Dialectical Progression towards Socialism10. The Early Roots of Marx¿s Capital11. Illusion of the Epoch: Twentieth Century Socialism

Paresh Chattopadhyay
is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Quebec, Canada and the author of
The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience
(1994).  He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris and University of Grenoble.  He is a guest researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory (InkriT).