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Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution
The "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution" emerged as a reaction to the negative development of the Russian Revolution. With this writing, the authors for the first time put up for debate the economic foundations for the construction and organization of a society in the sense of the "association of free and equal people". At the same time, they took into account all the experience gained from the previous attempts of the labor movement, and by criticizing it were able to point out necessary new paths. A critique that has lost nothing of its original topicality to this day. The first edition of the Fundamental Principles, published in German in 1930, was confiscated and largely destroyed. A completely revised and improved edition in Dutch was first published in excerpts in 1931 and 1935 in book form in a second edition. The text of the German first edition was reprinted in 1970 and also translated into English and French. The completely revised and improved 2nd edition, on the other hand, remained largely unnoticed in Dutch for the following 85 years. With this translation of the 2nd edition into English, the Sleeping Beauty has awakened.
Critique of Capitalism and the Question of the Alternative
Mistakes in the explanation of the cause of a disturbing effect usually continue in a wrong solution proposal. Those who explain poverty as the result of market failure look for alternatives to market regulation. Those who explain poverty as a necessary consequence of market-based production relationships want to abolish the market. Any alternative to capitalist reality is therefore only as good as the underlying explanation of the capitalist mode of production. Accordingly, the present book is not about imagining a better world, regardless of the reasons for the worldwide impoverishment and destitution of large parts of the population, but about deriving from the explanation of capitalism the fundamental principles of an economy beyond capitalism. Critique and alternative are thus brought together. The question of feasibility is thereby answered simultaneously.
From Each According to His Ability, to Each According to His Needs!
Most Marxists do not like Marx. At least, they don't like the economic principles of the communist society that Marx derived from his critique of capitalism. But most Marxists do not criticize Marx in this respect either, they prefer to interpret him. "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution," the now legendary 1930 pamphlet of the Group of International Communists, was both a detailed exposition of the communist mode of production that Marx and Engels had only sketched out and a fundamental critique of the revisionism of the political parties that invoked Marx. The book at hand contains a selection of articles published by the members of the Group of International Communists in various periodicals between 1925 and 1936, whose critique has lost none of its relevance to this day.
Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution
This book is a tribute to the collective work of the Group of International Communists of Holland. Given the experiences with state communism in Russia, their "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution," published in 1930, was an attempt to elaborate the economic basis of a communist society as outlined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Although their explanations have lost none of their original topicality, their text has remained a product of its time in the way they address the literature of that period. This paper therefore attempts to reintroduce the core statements of the "Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution" into the current debate on alternatives to capitalism.
Why Hunger: Arguments Against the Market
Despite the wonders of technology in the 21st century, global hunger, no access to clean water, bitter poverty, and miserable working conditions accompany the globalized market economy. Not only in the so-called developing countries, but in the successful industrial nations as well, the official poverty reports point up the growing discrepancy between what is presented as the wealth of the nation in the gross national product and calculated as per capita income and that what the majority of the population gets from this.The question of the alternative to these achievements of the global market economy begins with arguments against the market. The classic of this critical analysis
Great Depression 2.0
Government rescue programs for bad loans are designed to prevent a credit crunch. Worldwide debt is rising to many times the annual economic output. To stabilize the global financial system, central banks are buying government and corporate bonds on an ever-increasing scale. Negative interest rates are intended to revive the economy. "Helicopter Money" - the printing and distribution of money are being discussed as a solution.Is the capitalist financial system on the verge of collapse? Are we experiencing a new Great Depression? What exactly is a Great Depression? Why can too much wealth in the form of overcapacity become the cause of mass impoverishment?
Financial Crisis
Financial crisis 2008 revisited. What a strange crisis! Apparently there was too much of everything: too many factories, too many homes, too many consumer articles. The economic supply in a country was too large for demand; there was not too little, but too much capacity. What to do with all the useful objects that are being produced? Employees are fired and thus have no more money because too much was produced. Useful objects are stockpiled and functioning production sites are closed because of low demand and the same time widespread poverty.How can overproduction become a problem at all? If too much has been produced you could simply let it lie or dispose of it. It would only be annoying if too much work had been done instead of dedicating oneself to the well earned free time earlier. What sort of strange wealth is it which - even though the material conditions of production have not changed in the slightest, although food, accommodation and all other consumer articles imaginable are still available
Financial Crisis Lessons Learned
Strange crisis. Apparently there is too much of everything: too many factories, too many homes, too many consumer articles. The economic supply in a country is too large for demand; there is not to little, but too much capacity. What to do with all the useful objects that are being produced? Employees are fired and thus have no more money because too much was produced. Useful objects are stockpiled and functioning production sites are closed because of low demand and the same time widespread poverty.How can overproduction become a problem at all? If too much has been produced you could simply let it lie or dispose of it. It would only be annoying if too much work had been done instead of dedicating oneself to the well-earned free time earlier. What sort of strange wealth is it which - even though the material conditions of production have not changed in the slightest, although food, accommodation and all other consumer articles imaginable are still available – are suddenly ever less available to a large part of the population? In the market economy, what is the yardstick, what is the purpose of using the means of production? Why does money rule the world?
