ABSTRACT

1.1. Categories and concepts. – 1.2 Operational categories. – 1.3 Capitalism and primitive socialism under the meta-mode of production. – 1.4 Socialist-oriented socioeconomic formations. – Box 1.1. A non-dichotomist, heuristic concept of socialism: towards an index of socialistic development – Box 1.2. Socialist-oriented economies and socialist-oriented socioeconomic formations