
Paresh ChattopadhyayUniversity of Quebec in Montreal | UQAM · Department of Sociology
Paresh Chattopadhyay
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This chapter delves into human emancipation in socialism through the abolition of capital and private property, and thus the abolition of alienation. The discussion revolves around associated mode of production and how “true community” is envisaged by Marx. Here, it is emphasized that the outcome of the socialist revolution is socialism conceived a...
This chapter focuses on the “social individual” in the new society. It analyzes the situation of the individual in the new society, following from the three stages in the evolution of the human society according to Marx. The author brings together earlier themes such as labour, production, and alienation to fully analyze how Marx envisaged the futu...
As the title suggests, this chapter looks at capitalism as a transitional society that produces within it the contradictions that give rise to the future society. It starts by looking at the double existence of capital and discusses the role of credit, stock companies, and workers’ cooperatives in capitalism. Then, the author shows how the new soci...
This chapter is an overview of society under capitalism. Building on the discussion on Marx’s critique of political economy, the author provides a detailed analysis of Marx’s writings on different phenomena ranging from capital to wages, from surplus labour to accumulation. The chapter’s focus is on labour, alienation, and accumulation and their re...
This chapter lays out what socialism is not, by contrasting Marx’s idea of social revolution with that of Lenin’s through the case of October 1917. The absence of democracy, the side-lining of the proletariat, and the role of the party are discussed to substantiate the author’s claim that the revolution of October 1917 was not a socialist revolutio...
After clarifying the question of "socialism" in Marx's understanding, this paper draws from "Capital"-Marx's economic writings in the period 1857-81, including manuscripts in different notebooks and his correspondence with different people-To throw light on his argument concerning the genesis of socialist society from the contradictions of the exis...
In this chapter, we argue that the basic Marxian ideas concerning the type of society supposed to follow the demise of capitalism are contained in the Communist Manifesto (hereafter, Manifesto) in a condensed form.
The basic theme of the chapter is the passage from the “pre-history of human society” to humanity’s history through revolutionary transformation of the old society. This passage is considered as humanity’s progress in the sense of contradictory movement, as a manifestation of the dialectic of negativity. First, the paper restates and discusses Marx...
In this chapter, we discuss the contradictions inherent in the category of labour that Marx underlines in his different writings where labour is examined in its multiple existence—labour as such, abstract and concrete labour, necessary and surplus labour. Though the bulk of the chapter deals with labour in relation to commodity-capitalist society,...
market Socialism (MS for short) as a conceptual category signifies an economic system where (at least) the principal means of production are owned either by the State or by some form of collectivity—like for example self-managed workers’ cooperatives—and where the allocation of goods and resources for productive and individual (personal) consumptio...
In this chapter, we challenge some of the assertions of Marx’s feminist critics necessitating a synthesis between Marxism and Feminism in order to better understand women’s domestic labour. Although these critics often acknowledge the relevance of Marxian analysis of the original accumulation of capital and absolute surplus value, they claim that “...
Economic crisis as inherent in capitalism is an abiding preoccupation of all of Marx’s adult life though, as in some other fields of his critique of political economy, Marx did not leave a “finished” work on the subject.1 A most vivid early account of crisis appears in the Communist Manifesto (1848) in connection with the discussion of the growing...
Today, there is a curious convergence of views between the Right and the dominant Left on the meaning of socialism. Put more concretely, for both the Right and the dominant Left, socialism refers to the system which came into being with the conquest of political power by the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917, and signifies a society governed by a single...
Unknown for a long time, Marx’s immensely emancipatory manuscripts, his first critique of political economy, that he composed in Paris were published by the great Marx scholar David Riazanov in 1932. They comprise Marx’s extensive reading notes on and excerpts from a very large number of economists, as well as what came to be called Economic and Ph...
The first version of the MEGA was undertaken in the late twenties of the last century in the Soviet Union under the direction of David B. Riazanov, perhaps the most knowledgeable Marx scholar of the time, under whom the edition had attained the highest scholarly standard and textual exactitude. But soon, he was removed from this function by the reg...
In this chapter, the term “globalization” refers to the globalization of capital, where “capital” signifies the capitalist relation of production characterized by the separation of the immediate producers from the means of production, resulting in the existence of wage and salary earners on the one side and the owners of the means of production-cap...
Was Marx intellectually responsible for what happened in Russia and eastern Europe, beginning with 1917? A discussion of Khatkhate's position on socialism, inspired by Kornai's ideas in his review article, "Janos Kornai's Odyssey to the Never, Never Land" (EPW, 28 March 2009), and a brief outline of socialism as envisaged by Marx.
While Rightly Emphasising the Indissoluble Connection of "democracy" and "freedom" with "socialism" Prabhat Patnaik (november 3, 2007) Leaves the Meanings of These Central Concepts Unclear.
This paper is concerned with socialism purely as a theoretical category, leaving aside the historical movements and acts that have occurred in its name. "Early Bolshevism" refers to Bolshevism before Stalin's consolidation of power. Marx's notion of post-capitalist society - "communism", "socialism", "society of free and associated producers" - env...
Drawing on Hegel, in his Parisian Manuscripts of 1844 Marx first attempted to show how capitalism not only contained within itself conditions for its own negation, but also created elements of the new society that would supersede it. Under capitalism, labour, like other factors, too is converted to a commodity - 'surplus labour' with exchange value...
Marx drafted his 'Marginal Notes' in 1875 to underline what he perceived to be the shortcomings in the workers' programme. This drew on his earlier works and encapsulated new insights gleaned from the new forms of workers' struggles. For the first time, Marx also sketched his vision of a 'union of free individuals' that would be finally established...
The essential ideas concerning the society of free and associated producers - the post-capitalist society - as well as the conditions of its realisation, elaborated by Marx in his writings of different periods, are already found in the Communist Manifesto in a condensed form.
Traditionally the Marxists have considered bureaucracy as an integral part of the “bourgeois” state machine. At a formal level, this is also true of Marx. However, with bureaucracy conceived as a general form of organization of administrators hierarchically arranged from the top downwards—not necessarily confined to state apparatus—a careful readin...
Review of India's Path of Development: A Marxist Approach by A. R. Desai. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
Review of The Czechoslovak Reform Movement 1963-1968: A Study in the Theory of Socialism by Benjamin B. Page; The Human Face of Socialism: The Political Economy of Change by George Wheeler. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this ar...
For the purposes of this article we follow the most outstanding representatives of Marxism in considering Marxist thought uniquely as a guide to (revolutionary) action. Applying the Marxist theory of knowledge to Marxism itself, we can say that advances in Marxist thought are possible only on the basis of practice. There is no such thing as "pure"...
The expression "political economy" is becoming increasingly fashionable in English-speaking countries (on the continent of Europe it has always been in use). It is being set up mostly as a standard of revolt against so-called "orthodox" economics. But the meaning being given to the expression is far from clear. Surely it cannot merely be a question...
Most of the economic writings of the founders of scientific socialism, it is well known, arc concerned with the analysis of capitalism. Though they had very much in view the social formation that was to succeed the existing one, any elaborate discussion on the subject was out of the question as long as the "material base" of such a discussion was a...
The interest in young Marx is quite recent in India. It can be said that the discussion about young Marx began in Europe aknost immediately-after the publication of Marxs Manuscripts of 1844. In our country it started after the English translation of the Manuscripts had reached here from Moscow in the late fifties. The discussion in India, however,...