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Socialism in Marx’s Capital

Towards a Dealienated World

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Authors:
  1. Paresh Chattopadhyay

    1. University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

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  • Provides an in-depth analysis of Marx’s ideas of post-capitalist society in Capital
  • Expands the study of post-capitalism from Critique of the Gotha Programme to Marx's most important work
  • Based off of an analysis of all the manuscripts and various editions of Capital in the original language

Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Paresh Chattopadhyay
    Pages 1-20

  3. Labour, Alienation, Accumulation in Capitalism

    • Paresh Chattopadhyay
    Pages 21-55

  4. Capitalism as a Transitional Society

    • Paresh Chattopadhyay
    Pages 57-73

  5. Socialism and Democracy

    • Paresh Chattopadhyay
    Pages 75-87

  6. Socialism and Emancipation

    • Paresh Chattopadhyay
    Pages 89-109

  7. The New Society: Towards a Dealienated World

    • Paresh Chattopadhyay
    Pages 111-141

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 143-154
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About this book

This book explores how Marx envisaged society after capital(ism) by a close examination of the idea of socialism in the text(s) of Capital. Going beyond Marx’s critique of the Gotha Programme, Paresh Chattopadhyay challenges those who leave Capital aside in discussions of socialism in Marx’s works on the grounds that it is uniquely preoccupied with the critical analysis of capitalism. Instead, Chattopadhyay shows how Marx, in Capital, considered capitalism as a simple transitional society preparing the advent of socialism envisioned as an association of free and equal individuals. 

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“Socialism in Marx’s Capital: Towards a Dealienated World appears as a promising and unusual attempt, since it aims to expound on Marx’s ideas on socialism by appealing to his Capital. Chattopadhyay’s primary motivation in the book is deducing the material foundations and features of the socialist society from Capital.” (‪Görkem Giray, Marx and Philosophy, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, May 11, 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada

    Paresh Chattopadhyay

About the author

Paresh Chattopadhyay is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Quebec, Canada. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris and University of Grenoble, a guest researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory (InkriT). He is the author of The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience (1994), Marx’s Associated Mode of Production (2016), and Socialism and Commodity Production (2018). 

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