Non-market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Maximilien Rubel, John Crump
Macmillan, 1987 - Political Science - 187 pages
Everyone knows that in socialism private companies are replaced by state enterprises which employ wage-workers in order to produce profits which accrue to the state. 'Not so ' say the authors of this book. In the nineteenth century, socialists as different as Marx and Kropotkin were agreed that socialism means a marketless, moneyless, wageless, classless, stateless world society. Subsequently this vision of non-market socialism has been developed by currents such as the Anarcho-Communists, Impossibilists, Council Communists, Bordigists and Situationists. By tracing this development, this book challenges the assumptions of both supporters and opponents of what is conventionally regarded as socialism.

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NonMarket Socialism in the Nineteenth Century
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NonMarket Socialism in
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AnarchoCommunism
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