TITLE:
On Dialectics and the Basic Contradiction in Capitalism
AUTHORS:
Bruno Jossa
KEYWORDS:
Dialectics, Market Socialism, Capitalistic Contradictions
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.4 No.7,
July
14,
2017
ABSTRACT: The contradiction which is classified as the severest one in most Marxist analyses of society is the plan-market opposition. From this, it follows that the social order that will rise from the ashes of capitalism upon the solution of this contradiction must be a centrally planned and, hence, non-market system. The author emphasizes that, instead, the existence of a different contradiction whose solution is compatible with the assumption that the newly emerging production mode, i.e. socialism, will still be a market economy. In the conclusion, the author mentions a seldom-quoted article that Lenin wrote after his experiments with wartime communism and the Nep and in which he spelt out that “cooperation is socialism”.