Preface
List of Figures
1 Introduction
1 Nine Claims
2 Summary of the Book
2 Capitalism (and Capital)
1 The ‘Standard View’
2 Capital: A Macro-monetary Totality
3 The Case against Capitalism: Essential Determinations and Systematic Tendencies
4 Conclusion
3 The Present Moment of World History
1 Technological Change and Valorisation in Contemporary Capitalism
2 From a ‘Golden Age’ to a Global Slump
3 Neoliberalism
4 Conclusion
4 A Socialist Constitution
1 Marx’s Ruling Principle
2 ‘Free Development’ (1): Self-Governance without Domination
3 ‘Free Development’ (2): The Freedom of Particular Social Individuals
4 ‘Full Development’: Universal and Particular Needs
5 Two Solidarity Constraints
6 Further Principles
7 Conclusion
5 The Local Level (1): The Democratic Determination of Social Needs and Production Proposals
1 The Social Determination of Social Needs
2 Two Notes
3 The Investment Requests of Production Collectives
4 The Estimation of Costs
5 Retained Earnings and Market Socialism
6 Conclusion
6 The Local Level (2): Social Investment, Social Production, and Social Exchange
1 The Allocation of Social Investment
2 The Process of Production
3 The Acquisition of Consumption Goods
4 Conclusion
7 The Role of ‘Money’ in Socialist Accounting
1 Some Questions
2 A Note on Money in Capitalism
3 Some Relevant Determinations of the Socialist Alternative
4 Conclusion
8 Regional Networks of Production and Exchange
1 Some general remarks on regional production
2 Regional production for social needs and the solidarity constraints
3 Regional production networks and the coordination of social investments
4 The regional innovation system
5 Conclusion
9 Socialism on the National and International Levels
1 The transition to the national and international levels
2 Production for social needs on the national and international levels
3 The Social Transaction Centre
4 A note on the implications of the first solidarity constraint on the international level
5 National and international Democratic Assemblies
6 National and international Agencies
7 The national and international innovation systems
8 The fraught relationship with the remnants of capitalism
9 Conclusion
10 Incentives and Efficiency in the Socialist Model
1 Incentive objections
2 Efficiency objections
3 Conclusion
11 Socialism and the ‘Realm of freedom’
1 The realm of freedom in capitalism and socialism: some contrasts
2 Commons-based peer production in contemporary capitalism
3 The realm of necessity and the realm of freedom: a dialectical unity-in-difference
4 An emancipatory promise fulfilled: commons-based peer production and the socialist project
5 Conclusion
12 Conclusion
1 Why socialism is needed
2 The republican socialist model: a summary
3 How do we get there from here?
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
