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