Socialism and Commodity Production develops a detailed critique of orthodox theories of socialism on the basis of a comprehensive study of Marx's own writings on the nature of non-capitalist society.

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.