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SocialismandCommodityProduction Historical Materialism Book Series EditorialBoard SébastienBudgen(Paris) DavidBroder(Rome) SteveEdwards(London) JuanGrigera(London) MarcelvanderLinden(Amsterdam) PeterThomas(London) volume 165 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/hm Socialism and Commodity Production EssayinMarxRevival By PareshChattopadhyay LEIDEN | BOSTON LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Chattopadhyay,Paresh,author. Title:Socialismandcommodityproduction:essayinMarxrevival/byParesh Chattopadhyay. Description:Boston:Brill,[2018]|Series:Historicalmaterialismbookseries;165| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018024207(print)|LCCN2018027052(ebook)| ISBN9789004377516(e-book)|ISBN9789004231641(hardback:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Socialism–21stcentury.|Commercialproducts.|Marxian economics.|Capitalism. Classification:LCC HX45(ebook)|LCC HX45.C432018(print)|DDC335.4–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018024207 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN1570-1522 ISBN978-90-04-23164-1(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-37751-6(e-book) Copyright2018byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSenseandHoteiPublishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNVprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. DedicatedtotheMemoryofMaximilienRubel Humanist,Savant,Militant,Libertarian PersonanongrataEastandWest ∵ Contents Preface xi Prologue 1 Twentieth-CenturySocialism 2 SocialismasMinorityRule 4 Lenin’sRole 4 TheRelevanceofMarx 13 ACaricatureofMarx’sSocialism 15 1 OnSocialism:AssociationofFreeIndividuals 27 (Pre)conditionsofSocialism 29 AssociatedModeofProduction 47 OwnershipRelation 48 ExchangeRelations 50 Distribution/Allocation 52 LabouringIndividualunderSocialism 56 2 CommodityProduction 63 FromCommoditytoCapital 64 ParadoxesandContradictions 73 OntheValueForm 79 CommodityCirculation:PossibilityofCrisis 95 3 SimpleCommodityProduction 100 TheProblem 100 DiscussionafterEngels 102 TheCritics 104 CriticismsDiscussed 108 Conclusion 115 4 CommodityProductionandSocialisminMarx’sFollowers 118 TheFirstFollowers:AugustBebelandKarlKautsky 118 MarxiansafterKautsky 121 Non-Bolsheviks:Korsch,Lukács,Rühle,Hilferding 121 BolsheviksonSocialismandCommodityProduction 124 viii contents 5 OnSocialistAccounting 139 TheLabourProcess 140 PointofDeparture 141 HowtoProceed 144 LabourTime:NeglectedAspects 148 LabourTimeandNon-labourTime 152 SocialistAccountingFramework 155 OnPlanningandtheUnitofCalculation 157 6 AnarchistCommunism 169 PeterKropotkin 169 Kropotkin’sAnarchistCommunism 170 CarloCafiero 176 AnarchismandMarx:TheRelation 178 7 ConcerningGuildSocialism 186 Introduction 186 GuildSocialismasDemocracy 188 DistributionandAllocationinGuildSocialism 189 ConsumersandProducers 192 TransformationoftheExistingSociety 193 AmbiguitiesandContradictions 195 8 OnMarketSocialism 199 OriginofMarketSocialism 200 TheCompetitiveSolution 209 Criticisms 212 FeasibleSocialism 217 AnalyticalMarketSocialism 219 MarketSocialismProper 221 MarketSocialism–‘Marxian’ 223 MarketSocialismisCapitalism 227 9 TheProblematicofaNon-capitalistRoadtoSocialism 232 Capital’sPositiveContribution 232 TheControversy 233 ControversyContinued 241 FurtherConsiderations 244 contents ix Epilogue.IllusionoftheEpoch:Twentieth-CenturySocialism 249 Preliminaries 249 NatureofTwentieth-CenturySocialism 251 TheParty-State 267 TheFundamentalQuestion 274 References 285 Index 298