Reimagining Marxism: The Role of Self-Managed Firms in Shaping a Decentralized Socialist Economy | Chapter 3 | New Advances in Business, Management and Economics Vol. 3

Economic research has provided convincing evidence that at least two production systems are possible at a post-capitalistic stage: a centrally planned system of public firms or a system of self-managed firms. The starting point for this paper is the finding that references to a system of self-managed firms as the future social order are quite exceptional in the published literature on MarXist thought. Despite ever more marked deviations of leftist political platforms from the centralised model of the URSS, it is clear that self-management has not taken the place of central planning in MarXist plans for the future. In contrast, the author came up with evidence that an analysis of the self-managed firm system may offer clues for a critical discussion of major points of MarXian theory, including the labour theory of value, alienation, dialectics or the subject-object inversion in capitalism. Accordingly, in the individual sections of this paper, each of these central aspects of MarXian theory will be separately addressed in the light of insights flowing from the economic theory of producer cooperatives. In conclusion, it is important to remark that the rejection of MarX’s value theory and Hegelian dialectics does not undermine the vitality of MarXism.

 

Author (s) Details

Bruno Jossa
Department of Economics, University of Naples, Via Mezzocannone, 16, 80132 Naples, Italy.

 

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Studies of ‘Soccer Hooligan’ may be an another Chance to Marxist Approach| Chapter 10 | Research Developments in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7

 In this chapter, we examine significant scholarly publications on soccer hooliganism. The study also took into account the rise in popularity of ex-hooligans' "confessions" books. This review does not claim to be exhaustive because there is a large and growing amount of literature in this area. The various academic theories include the "figurational" or "process-sociological" approach, which was popular in the early 20th century, developed by Dunning et al., the "anthropological" approach by Armstrong and Harris, the post-modern approach by Giulianotti, the Marxist approach by Taylor, Clarke, and Hargreaves, the "ethogenic" approach by Marsh, the "psychological reversal theory" approach by Kerr, and the historically sensitive/historical approaches by King and We go back to Ian Taylor's Marxist theoretical perspective later in the article. Even though Marxist perspectives are no longer common in academia, we think they still have something to contribute.

Author(s) Details:

Kieran James
School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland, High Street, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, UK.

Sheikh Al Tanzil
Department of Accounting, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands, Fiji.

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