Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Rubel, Maximilien; Crump, John

Everyone knows that in socialism private companies are replaced by state enterprises which employ wage-workers in order to produce profits which accrue to the state. 'Not so!' say the authors of this book. In the nineteenth century, socialists as different as Marx and Kropotkin were agreed that socialism means a marketless, moneyless, wageless, classless, stateless world society. Subsequently this vision of non-market socialism has been developed by currents such as the Anarcho-Communists, Impossibilists, Council Communists, Bordigists and Situationists. By tracing this development, this book challenges the assumptions of both supporters and opponents of what is conventionally regarded as socialism.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1987-08-07

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333413012

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18775-1

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 187