240 Pages
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Routledge
238 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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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 that 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... Read more
Introduction 1. A tentative assessment of the importance of the materialistic conception of history 2. Is historical materialism a deterministic approach? The democratic firm and the transition to socialism 3. Cooperation in the history of economic thought 4. Socialism today 5. Reform versus revolution: Struve’s critique of Marx 6. Competition in a democratic firm system: failures and constraints 7. On dialectics and the basic contradiction of capitalism 8. Is socialism a utopian dream? 9. Schweickart’s approach to economic demoracy 10. Richard Wolff’s democracy at work; a cure for capitalism 11. Critical perspectives on self-management theory 12. Marxist criticisms of democratic firm management
Biography
Bruno Jossa has held teaching posts at the Universities of Pescara, Messina, Venice and Naples. He is a co-founder of the Associazione Italiana Per Lo Studio Dei Sistemi Economici Comparati, an association which he chaired in 1992–1993.
