Paresh Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay, Paresh

A Marxist academic focusing on the political economy of development and the theory of capital accumulation.

Worlds apart: socialism in Marx and in early Bolshevism

Paresh Chattopadhyay's article on Marx and the divergence of the Bolsheviks from his conception of socialism.

A Provisional Overview

On some aspects of the dialectic of labour in the Critique of Politcial Economy

Chattopadhyay's discussion on the nature of labour in capitalist society and comments on Marx's work, The Critique of Political Economy.

In the following lines we discuss the contradictions inherent in the category of labor that Marx underlines in his different writings where labor is examined in its multiple existence - labor as such, abstract and concrete labor, necessary and surplus labor.

Marx on capital's globalization: the dialectic of negativity - Paresh Chattopadhyay

Paresh Chattopadhyay's essay on the globalisation of capital using the Marxian term 'world market' to explore the spread of neo-liberal capitalism under the auspices of 'globalisation'.

In what follows, 'capital', following Marx, refers to a historically specific mode of production (based on the producers' separation from the conditions of production) and the corresponding social relation between producers and the owners of the conditions of production - the basis of the modern society.

Class history and theory: capitalism and communism in the USSR - review by Paresh Chattopadhyay

Paresh Chattopadhyay's review of Stepen Resnick's book on the USSR, analysing the Soviet experience in terms of class.

CLASS THEORY AND HISTORY: CAPITALISM AND COMMUNISM IN THE USSR, Stephan A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff; New York and London: Routledge, 2002

Reviewed by Paresh Chattopadhyay

The book under review is not just one more addition to the numerous works on the USSR that have so far appeared in print. This is an unusual work. It attempts to analyse the whole soviet experience (1917-1990) in terms of 'class,' derived from Marx. According to the authors the USSR was all along a "state form of capitalism." The Bolsheviks had simply replaced pre-1917 "private capitalism" with "state capitalism."

At the source of The Critique of Political Economy - Paresh Chattopadhyay

Paresh Chattopadhyay's review of a collection of Marx and Engels' notebooks.

"Karl Marx - Exzerpte und Notizen: Sommer 1844 bis Anfang 1847" in Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels "” Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) vierte Abteilung. Band 3. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 866.

Reviewed by Paresh Chattopadhyay*

Capitalism as socialism: defence of socialism in the socialist calculation of debate revisited

Paresh Chattopadhyay's contribution to the ongoing debates with state socialists on the allocation of resources in society, with specific reference to the Lange-Lerner model of socialism.

It is sixty years since Oskar Lange defended socialism in a famous debate with Mises, Hayek and Robbins, who had argued that rational allocation of productive resources was impossible in socialism, inasmuch as the absence of private ownership in the means of production would do away with the price system, the only rational basis for allocating the productive resources.

A manifesto of emancipation: Marx's "Marginal Notes to the German Worker's Party" after 125 years

Paresh Chattopadhyay's investigation on Marx's little-read "Marginal Notes to the German Worker's Party" arguing in favour of its strong emancipatory message and counter-poses it to Bolshevik-style state socialism.

Marx's "Marginal Notes" of 1875 or what he called in a letter (to Bracke, May 5, 1875), a "long scrap of paper," was a purely occasional text which its author felt compelled to compose, in order to underline what he thought to be the serious shortcomings in a workers' programme.

The place of the Communist Manifesto in the elaboration of the Marxian idea of the post-Capital

Welsh translation of the Communist Manifesto.

In the text that follows we argue that the basic Marxian ideas concerning the type of society supposed to follow the demise of capitalism are contained in the Manifesto in a condensed form.

Accordingly, the first section offers an outline of what type of society the Manifesto envisages for the future as well as the conditions necessary for its appearance while the second section relates these ideas to Marx's other texts.

Review of 'Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective' - Paresh Chattopadhyay

Paresh Chattopadhyay's review of Paul Burkett's book. 'Marx and Nature'.

This is an important book. Its great merit lies in a clear presentation of Marx's position on nature in its relation to human beings as well as a convincing defense of Marx against his ecological critics. The book has 14 chapters spread over three parts: nature and historical materialism; nature and capitalism; and nature and communism.