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First Published: 1975, by
Politizdat.
Source: Vitaly Vygodsky,
The Economic
Substantiation of the Theory of Socialism,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1981
Translated: Jane Sayer
Transcription/Markup:
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter
One.
THE INITIAL ELEMENTS IN THE
ECONOMIC SUBSTANTIATION OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM (1843-1849)
1. General
Description of
Capitalist Exploitation
2. The First
Steps in the
Scientific Forecasting of Communist Economy
3.
Proclamation of the
Historical Role of the Working Class
4. The Initial
Theses of
the Theory of Scientific Communism
5. The First
Principles of
the Theory of Surplus-Value
6. Economic
Substantiation
of the Need for a Period of Transition from Capitalism to Communism
7. The
Prerequisites for
the Further Elaboration of Economic Theory
Chapter
Two.
RESEARCH INTO THE MECHANISM OF
CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION (1857-1859)
1. Critique of
Proudhon's
Petty-Bourgeois Reformism. The Commodity as the "Economic Cell" of
Capitalism
2. The
Fundamental
Propositions of the Theory of SurplusValue. The Possibility of and Need
for
Socialist Revolution
3. The Law of
Time-Saving
as the Regulator of the Communist Economy. Labour under Communism
4. Economic
Crises and the
Development of Bourgeois Society
Chapter
Three.
ECONOMIC SUBSTANTIATION OF THE
WORKING-CLASS STRUGGLE IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY (1861-1865)
1. Analysis of
the
Commodity ``Labour-Power''
2. The Working
Class in the
Structure of Bourgeois Society
3. The
Inevitability of
Economic Crises. The Impact of Capitalist Accumulation on the Condition
of the
Worker
4. Capitalist
Monopoly and
Capitalist Exploitation
5. Free Time
as the Goal of
Communist Production
6. Formal and
Real
Subjection of Labour to Capital
7. The
Antagonistic
Contradictions of Capitalism. The Material Preconditions for Communist
Society
8.
Specification of the
Basic Theses of Marx's Economic Theory in the Documents of the
International
Working Men's Association
9. Certain
Aspects of the
Working-Class Struggle Today
Chapter
Four.
ECONOMIC SUBSTANTIATION OF THE
INEVITABILITY OF THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION (1867)
1. General
Description of
the Communist Mode of Production
2. The
Struggle of the
Working Class for Labour Legislation
3. The
Historical Tendency
of Capitalist Accumulation
Chapter
Five.
THE SCIENTIFIC FORECASTING OF THE
COMMUNIST ECONOMY (the 1870s)
1. Analysis of
Social
Reproduction. The Economic Principles of the Planned Development of
Communist
Society
2. The
Economic
Substantiation of Scientific Communism in the Critique of
the Gotha
Programme and Anti-Duhring
Chapter
Six.
MARX'S THEORY AS THE POINT OF
DEPARTURE FOR LENIN'S DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF THE
THEORY OF
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM
1. Marxist
Analysis of the
Economic System in Russia and the Development of the Theory of
Revolution
2. Marx's
Theory as the
Point of Departure for Lenin's Study of Imperialism
3. Some
Problems of the
Theory of Transition from Capitalism to Socialism. Commodity Relations
and the
Law of Value under Socialism
CONCLUSION
1. The
Internal Unity of
the Theoretical Heritage of Marx and Engels
2. The
Internal Unity of
Marx's Economic Theory and the Revolutionary Conclusions Deriving from
It
List
of Quoted and
Mentioned Literature