Karl Marx did not draw blueprints for socialism unlike the precedent utopian socialists. His lifework Das Kapital (1867,85, 94) totally concentrates into explication of principles of capitalist market economy. Nevertheless, almost in every chapter or part of this great work, we are suggested interesting theoretical possibilities for socialist communal societies beyond capitalism. This paper reexamines Marx's value theory as a typical case, in three sections as follows; (1) The Forms and the Substance of Value, (2) Possibilities for Socialist Price (s-price) Forms, and (3) An Egalitarian Theory of Labor. Some theoretical problems, which were left by Marx, must also be discussed upon the ground of my book, Political Economy for Socialism (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1995).
| Subject : | : | IIPPE Paper |
| Language of text | : | English |
| Comment | : | (1)I am submitting this proposal with a temporal user acount (the registered email address is chuma@kokugakuin.ac.jp) because I lost my ID for my own acount (the registered email address is mktitoh@nifty.com) and that I could not login properly. Please identify I am Makoto Itoh (Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo, Japan) with mktitoh@nifty.com. I hope you can send necessary correspondence to mktitoh@nifty.com. (2)This paper is related to Shoko CHUMA's paper proposal, ‘What is the theoretical basis of social and solidarity economy.' Therefore, it is desirable to have her and my paper in a same session. Chuma and I will be grateful if you could give our request favorable consideration. |
| Topics | : | IIPPE Working Group - Moving Beyond Capitalism |
| Keywords | : | Marx's value theory ; socialism ; the forms of value ; complex labor |
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