A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century : Towards the 'Full and Free Development of Every Individual' /

A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century : Towards the 'Full and Free Development of Every Individual' /

Marx called for a society where the ruling principle is 'the full and free development of every individual.' Capitalism neither is nor can be such a society. Domination, worsening ecological crises, and many other pathologies are its intrinsic features-not bugs that can be corrected. But i...

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Main Author: Smith, Tony (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series ; 352.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.