This book explores how Marx envisaged society after capital(ism) by a close examination of the idea of socialism in the text(s) of Capital. Going beyond Marx¿s critique of the Gotha Programme, Paresh Chattopadhyay challenges those who leave Capital aside in discussions of socialism in Marx¿s works on the grounds that it is uniquely preoccupied with the critical analysis of capitalism. Instead, Chattopadhyay shows how Marx, in Capital, considered capitalism as a simple transitional society preparing the advent of socialism envisioned as an association of free and equal individuals.

Paresh Chattopadhyay is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Quebec, Canada. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris and University of Grenoble, a guest researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory (InkriT). He is the author of The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience (1994), Marx's Associated Mode of Production (2016), and Socialism and Commodity Production (2018). 

1. Introduction

2. Labour, Alienation, and Accumulation in Capitalism

3. Capitalism as a Transitional Society 

4. Socialism and Democracy 

5. Socialism and Emancipation

6. Socialism and the Human Individual