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The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that could be alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. The agreed point of departure among the contributors is that on the one hand, capitalism leads to unemployment, a lack of autonomy in the workplace, and massive income inequalities; while on the other hand, central socialist planning is characterized by underemployment, inefficiency, and bureaucracy. In Part I, various alternatives are proposed: profit-sharing systems, capitalism combined with some central planning, worker-owned firms in a market economy, or the introduction of the elements of market economy into a centrally planned economy as has occurred recently in Hungary. Part II provides a theoretical analysis and assessment of these systems.
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Joshua Kenney
reviewed Alternatives to capitalism on July 24, 2013
Alternatives to capitalism
I finished this book two weeks ago and I hadn't had the time to write a review until now. It is a well-rounded description of the economic situation in Britain immediately after feudalism ended followed by a bit of history on the creation of working-class radicalism, its co-option of political economy and ultimate failure to bring about a coherent socialist ideology. All this background is useful to deal with contemporary strains of socialism which have decided to incorporate market mechanisms into their theories and, in doing so, have abandoned any semblance of socialism.
This book is very useful to understand Marx more deeply, but it doesn't broach a discussion on the role of the state (even if this is transitional). All in all, a very well-written book that at times is repetitive but immensely rewarding.
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