TITLE:
Socialism Today, Utopian and Scientific
AUTHORS:
Bruno Jossa
KEYWORDS:
Socialism, Producers Cooperatives, Marxism
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.5,
May
26,
2015
ABSTRACT: This paper argues that centralised planning has markedly utopian
overtones since it envisions a system in which the day-to-day behaviour of
workers is not governed by the profit motive. A system of producer
cooperatives, on the contrary, is devoid of such utopian strain since the
members of its constituent firms would engage in production with the aim of
maximising the satisfaction associated with their work and can therefore be an
alternative to the capitalism. Paraphrasing Engels, therefore, it is possible
to argue that the socialism is evolving from its utopian stage to the
scientific stage of the modern theory of producer cooperatives.