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      The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism
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      The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism

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      The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism

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      The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism book

      ByBruno Jossa
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 2 December 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343070
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780429343070
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Politics & International Relations
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      Jossa, B. (2019). The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343070

      ABSTRACT

      This book argues that capitalism cannot be said to be truly democratic and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, is needed to give rise to a new mode of production which is genuinely socialist and fully consistent with the ultimate rationale underlying Marx’s theoretical approach. The proposition that firms should be run by the workers on their own, was endorsed by John Dewey, the greatest social thinker of the twentieth century, but is also shared by Marxists such as Anton Pannekoek, Karl Korsch, Angelo Tasca, Antonio Gramsci and Richard Wolff. This book explores the history of this argument taking in concepts from economic and political thought including historical materialism, cooperation, utopianism and economic democracy. The book will be of significant interest to scholars and students of political economy, Marxism, socialism, history of economic thought and political theory.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |13 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|14 pages

      A tentative assessment of the importance of the materialistic conception of history

      chapter 2|21 pages

      Is historical materialism a deterministic approach?

      The democratic firm and the transition to socialism

      chapter 3|11 pages

      Cooperation in the history of economic thought

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Socialism today

      chapter 5|23 pages

      Reform versus revolution

      Struve’s critique of Marx

      chapter 6|11 pages

      Competition in a democratic firm system

      Failures and constraints

      chapter 7|12 pages

      On dialectics and the basic contradiction in capitalism

      chapter 8|16 pages

      Is socialism a utopian dream?

      chapter 9|15 pages

      Schweickart’s approach to economic democracy

      chapter 10|4 pages

      Richard Wolff’s democracy at work; a cure for capitalism

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Critical perspectives on self-management theory

      chapter 12|20 pages

      Marxist criticisms of democratic firm management

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