Chattopadhyay convincingly shows that Marx's conception of socialism bears little resemblance to the single-party states often termed "socialist."

Paresh Chattopadhyay, State Doctorate in Economic Sciences (1964), University of Paris, has published many articles, as well as the book The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience (Praeger, 1994; translated into Japanese in 1999). He is Professor of Political Economy in the Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Quebec in Montreal.

Table of Contents

Preface

Prologue

Twentieth-Century Socialism

Socialism as Minority Rule

Lenin's Role

The Relevance of Marx

A Caricature of Marx's Socialism

1 On Socialism: Association of Free Individuals

(Pre)conditions of Socialism

Associated Mode of Production

Ownership Relation

Exchange Relations

Distribution/Allocation

Labouring Individual under Socialism

2 Commodity Production

From Commodity to Capital

Paradoxes and Contradictions

On the Value Form

Commodity Circulation: Possibility of Crisis

3 Simple Commodity Production

The Problem

Discussion after Engels

The Critics

Criticisms Discussed

Conclusion

4 Commodity Production and Socialism in Marx's Followers

The First Followers: August Bebel and Karl Kautsky

Marxians after Kautsky

5 On Socialist Accounting

The Labour Process

Point of Departure

How to Proceed

Labour Time: Neglected Aspects

Labour Time and Non-labour Time

Socialist Accounting Framework

On Planning and the Unit of Calculation

6 Anarchist Communism

Peter Kropotkin

Carlo Cafiero

Anarchism and Marx: The Relation

7 Concerning Guild Socialism

Introduction

Guild Socialism as Democracy

Distribution and Allocation in Guild Socialism

Consumers and Producers

Transformation of the Existing Society

Ambiguities and Contradictions

8 On Market Socialism

Origin of Market Socialism

The Competitive Solution

Criticisms

Feasible Socialism

Analytical Market Socialism

Market Socialism Proper

Market Socialism - &'Marxian'

Market Socialism is Capitalism

9 The Problematic of a Non-capitalist Road to Socialism

Capital's Positive Contribution

The Controversy

Controversy Continued

Further Considerations

Epilogue

Illusion of the Epoch: Twentieth-Century Socialism

Preliminaries

Nature of Twentieth-Century Socialism

The Party-State

The Fundamental Question

References

Index