The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience: Essay in the Critique of Political Economy

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This work establishes the uniqueness of the Marxian category of Capital on the basis of the original texts by Marx. The study has been neglected in the existing literature. The wage-labor relationship is shown to be necessary and sufficient for the existence of capital(ism). Individual ownership is shown to be a particular form of capitalist private property which can also take the form of collective ownership. The author argues the capitalist character of the Soviet economy.

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.,."this is a major work of theoretical-historical synthesis. Chattopadhyay has produced an excellent educational resource for the left; no future Marxist attempt to take stock of the Soviet experience can validly ignore this book."-Review of Radical Political Economics
...this is a major work of theoretical-historical synthesis. Chattopadhyay has produced an excellent educational resource for the left; no future Marxist attempt to take stock of the Soviet experience can validly ignore this book.-Review of Radical Political Economics
..."this is a major work of theoretical-historical synthesis. Chattopadhyay has produced an excellent educational resource for the left; no future Marxist attempt to take stock of the Soviet experience can validly ignore this book."-Review of Radical Political Economics

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PARESH CHATTOPADHYAY is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Dr. Chattopadhyay has been Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and a Visiting Professor of Political Economy at the Universities of Paris and of Grenoble.