Towards a New Socialism

W. Paul Cockshott, Allin F. Cottrell9780851245454, 0851245455, 0851245447, 9780851245447

Towards a New Socialism was published in 1993 by Spokesman, Bertrand Russell House, Gamble Street, Nottingham, England, and printed by the Russell Press, Nottingham. The text is copyright W. Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell. This digital version was prepared by Allin Cottrell using LATEX. Besides pagination, it differs from the Spokesman printing only in respect of the correction of a few typographical errors and some minor reorganisation of Tables and Figures. No attempt has been made to update the book at this point. Paul Cockshott ([email protected]) currently works at the Turing Institute of the University of Glasgow, and Allin Cottrell ([email protected]) in the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. The authors wish to thank Maria Black, Ron Buchanan and Greg Michaelson for useful discussions of the ideas in this book. Allin Cottrell also wishes to acknowledge assistance in the form of research grants from Elon College, NorthCarolina, and the Kerr Bequest at the University of Edinburgh.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 4
Introduction……Page 8
Inequality……Page 18
Eliminating Inequalities……Page 30
Work, Time and Computers……Page 48
Basic Concepts of Planning……Page 60
Strategic Planning……Page 68
Detailed Planning……Page 80
Macroeconomic Planning……Page 96
The Marketing of Consumer Goods……Page 110
Planning and Information……Page 118
Foreign Trade……Page 128
Trade Between Socialist Countries……Page 146
The Commune……Page 154
On Democracy……Page 164
Property Relations……Page 178
Some Contrary Views Considered……Page 196
Bibliography……Page 206