Paresh Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay, Paresh

Khawaga — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:47:33 +0000

Worlds apart: socialism in Marx and in early Bolshevism

libcom — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:47:49 +0000

A Provisional Overview

On some aspects of the dialectic of labour in the Critique of Politcial Economy

libcom — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:27:27 +0000

In the following lines we discuss the contradictions inherent in the category of labor that Marx underlines in his different writings where labor is examined in its multiple existence - labor as such, abstract and concrete labor, necessary and surplus labor.

Marx on capital's globalization: the dialectic of negativity - Paresh Chattopadhyay

libcom — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:23:53 +0000

In what follows, 'capital', following Marx, refers to a historically specific mode of production (based on the producers' separation from the conditions of production) and the corresponding social relation between producers and the owners of the conditions of production - the basis of the modern society.

Class history and theory: capitalism and communism in the USSR - review by Paresh Chattopadhyay

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:50:48 +0000

CLASS THEORY AND HISTORY: CAPITALISM AND COMMUNISM IN THE USSR, Stephan A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff; New York and London: Routledge, 2002

Reviewed by Paresh Chattopadhyay

The book under review is not just one more addition to the numerous works on the USSR that have so far appeared in print. This is an unusual work. It attempts to analyse the whole soviet experience (1917-1990) in terms of 'class,' derived from Marx. According to the authors the USSR was all along a "state form of capitalism." The Bolsheviks had simply replaced pre-1917 "private capitalism" with "state capitalism."

At the source of The Critique of Political Economy - Paresh Chattopadhyay

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:40:27 +0000

"Karl Marx - Exzerpte und Notizen: Sommer 1844 bis Anfang 1847" in Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels "” Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) vierte Abteilung. Band 3. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 866.

Reviewed by Paresh Chattopadhyay*

Capitalism as socialism: defence of socialism in the socialist calculation of debate revisited

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:07:42 +0000

It is sixty years since Oskar Lange defended socialism in a famous debate with Mises, Hayek and Robbins, who had argued that rational allocation of productive resources was impossible in socialism, inasmuch as the absence of private ownership in the means of production would do away with the price system, the only rational basis for allocating the productive resources.

A manifesto of emancipation: Marx's "Marginal Notes to the German Worker's Party" after 125 years

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:00:40 +0000

Marx's "Marginal Notes" of 1875 or what he called in a letter (to Bracke, May 5, 1875), a "long scrap of paper," was a purely occasional text which its author felt compelled to compose, in order to underline what he thought to be the serious shortcomings in a workers' programme.

The place of the Communist Manifesto in the elaboration of the Marxian idea of the post-Capital

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:46:36 +0000

Accordingly, the first section offers an outline of what type of society the Manifesto envisages for the future as well as the conditions necessary for its appearance while the second section relates these ideas to Marx's other texts.

Review of 'Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective' - Paresh Chattopadhyay

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:42:46 +0000

This is an important book. Its great merit lies in a clear presentation of Marx's position on nature in its relation to human beings as well as a convincing defense of Marx against his ecological critics. The book has 14 chapters spread over three parts: nature and historical materialism; nature and capitalism; and nature and communism.