1st Edition

Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century A Century after the Bolshevik Revolution

By Alberto Gabriele, Elias Jabbour Copyright 2022
394 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its hegemony is no longer undisputed, and humankind is now faced with a key existential challenge. This book proposes an alternative path to overcoming the worldwide... Read more

Foreword by Francesco Schettino
Part I: Capitalism and Socialism as Modes of Production
1. Introduction to Part I
2. The hard scientific underpinnings of XXIth century political economy
3. Modes of production and socioeconomic formations
4. Labor and value
5. Real competition, pending issues and the core propositions of the surplus approach
6. Real socialism and the law of value
7. The Meta-Mode of Production
8. Socialism under the Meta Mode of Production
Part II: China’s journey from the early agricultural reforms to the New Projectment Economy
9. Introduction To Part II
10. Macroeconomic Dynamics
11. Rural reforms and the rise of  Non-Capitalist Market-Oriented Enterprises
12. The Large State-Owned Business Conglomerates
13. The National Financial System And The Strengthening of China’s Monetary Sovereignty
14. The dynamics of the new economic and social formation
15. NDRC and SASAC: a quantum leap in China’s planning and governance capabilities
16. The New Projectment Economy
Part III: The other two members of the new class of SEF: Vietnam and Laos
17. Introduction to part III
18. Agricultural reforms and the launching of Doi Moi
19. Equitization
20. SOE, FDI, and simple commodity production
21. Employment, wages, and productivity
22. Accumulation, growth, and structural change
23. Finance
24. Development of productive forces and modernization in Vietnam and China
25. Poverty, inequality and human development
26. The differences between comrades Masina and Cerimele and us
27. Vietnam and China: brothers, not twins
28. Laos: the least developed member of the new class of SEFs
29. Concluding Remarks


 

 

 

 

Biography

Alberto Gabriele is a Senior Researcher at Sbilanciamoci, Rome, Italy.

Elias Jabbour is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil.