From Each According to His Ability, to Each According to His Needs!

From Each According to His Ability, to Each According to His Needs!
Author: Group of International Group of International Communists
Publisher: Red & Black Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9783982206578

Most Marxists do not like Marx. At least, they don't like the economic principles of the communist society that Marx derived from his critique of capitalism. But most Marxists do not criticize Marx in this respect either, they prefer to interpret him. "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution," the now legendary 1930 pamphlet of the Group of International Communists, was both a detailed exposition of the communist mode of production that Marx and Engels had only sketched out and a fundamental critique of the revisionism of the political parties that invoked Marx. The book at hand contains a selection of articles published by the members of the Group of International Communists in various periodicals between 1925 and 1936, whose critique has lost none of its relevance to this day.

Critique of the Gotha Programme

Critique of the Gotha Programme
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2023-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Author: Aaron Bastani
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1786632640

The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream remains the same. Against the confines of this increasingly limited politics, a new paradigm has emerged. Fully Automated Luxury Communism claims that new technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism and scarcity. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness. For everyone. In his first book, radical political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable hope, highlighting how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of nine billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology and build meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society heralds the beginning of history. Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone.

Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution

Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution
Author: Hermann Lueer
Publisher: Arguments Against the Market
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2018-09-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781720114901

This book is a tribute to the collective work of the Group of International Communists of Holland. Given the experiences with state communism in Russia, their "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution," published in 1930, was an attempt to elaborate the economic basis of a communist society as outlined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Although their explanations have lost none of their original topicality, their text has remained a product of its time in the way they address the literature of that period. This paper therefore attempts to reintroduce the core statements of the "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution" into the current debate on alternatives to capitalism.

Trekonomics

Trekonomics
Author: Manu Saadia
Publisher: Inkshares
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1941758762

"Manu Saadia has managed to show us one more reason, perhaps the most compelling one of all, why we all need the world of Star Trek to one day become the world we live in." — Chris Black, Writer and Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: Enterprise What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed? Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon's imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backwards — through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist. Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it. What are the prospects of automation and artificial intelligence? Is there really no money in Star Trek? Is Trekonomics at all possible?

An Essay on Liberation

An Essay on Liberation
Author: Herbert Marcuse
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1971-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807096873

In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer content itself with repeating the formula, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," but must now investigate the nature of human needs themselves. Marcuse's claim is that even if production were controlled and determined by the workers, society would still be repressive—unless the workers themselves had the needs and aspirations of free men. Ranging from philosophical anthropology to aesthetics An Essay on Liberation attempts to outline—in a highly speculative and tentative fashion—the new possibilities for human liberation. TheEssay contains the following chapters: A Biological Foundation for Socialism?, The New Sensibility, Subverting Forces—in Transition, and Solidarity.

Is Socialism Feasible?

Is Socialism Feasible?
Author: Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789901626

After being proclaimed dead, there is now a major revival of socialism ideology in the West. But what does socialism mean? This book shows that it is irretrievably associated with common ownership. The twentieth-century experience of comprehensive national planning with state ownership has been disastrous, and in no case has democracy endured within large-scale socialism. This volume explains why. The alternative socialist option of worker-owned cooperatives must accept a major role for markets that many socialists reject. Further experiments in that direction must be subordinate to higher principles of liberal solidarity, involving a mixed market economy with a welfare state.

Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism

Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism
Author: Igor Shoikhedbrod
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2019-12-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030301958

Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism offers a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marx’s new materialist understanding of justice, legality, and rights through the vantage point of his widely invoked but generally misunderstood critique of liberalism. The book begins by reconstructing Marx’s conception of justice and rights through close textual interpretation and extrapolation. The central thesis of the book is, firstly, that Marx regards justice as an essential feature of any society, including the emancipated society of the future; and secondly, that standards of justice and right undergo transformation throughout history. The book then tracks the enduring legacy of Marx’s critique of liberal justice by examining how leading contemporary political theorists such as John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Nancy Fraser have responded to Marx’s critique of liberalism in the face of global financial capitalism and the hollowing out of democratically-enacted law. The Marx that emerges from this book is therefore a thoroughly modern thinker whose insights shed valuable light on some of the most pressing challenges confronting liberal democracies today.

The Communism of Capital?

The Communism of Capital?
Author: Armin Beverungen
Publisher: Mayflybooks/Ephemera
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781906948207

The communism of capital? What could this awkward turn of phrase mean, and what might it signify with regards to the state of the world today? Does it merely describe a reality in which communist demands are twisted to become productive of capital, a capitalist realism supplemented by a disarmed communist ideology? Or does the death of the capitalist utopia mean that capital cannot contain the antagonism expressed by Occupy and other movements anymore, and therefore must confront communism upfront? Is there hope to be gleaned from a production in common which prefigures a certain communism we can discern at the horizon? Or is the communism of capital merely a figure to be destroyed as we seek the communism of communists? The 12 contributions to this latest issue of ephemera explore the valances of the paradoxical and seemingly incoherent expression that is 'the communism of capital'. Collectively they stake out new territory for the theorisation and organization of political struggle in a context in which capital has become increasingly aware that its age-old nemesis might today be lurking at its very heart.