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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
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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 Surplus Value. 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