Overview
- Highlights original theories of labor notes, often neglected in favor of Mar's critique against them
- Provides a deep understanding of Marx's theory of money as well as the limitations of labor notes
- Offers valuable accounts of contemporary attemps of community money from a Marxist perspective
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive overview of historical and international debates on the theory of “labor money” or “labor notes.” These debates exist in a triangular context of market socialism, communism (community-based socialism), and local currency, joining numerous socialists, anarchists, and Marx and Engels. Labor note theory encompasses theoretical, ideological, and practical doctrines aimed at designing a fair and desirable labor-based market or non-market economy by reforming the monetary and credit system. This theory was considered an unfeasible utopian idea in the context of orthodox Marxism, which is typically based on a historical study of surplus value doctrines. However, this book eschews Marx’s critique of “labor money” that limits the debate regarding a concrete alternative society, and instead proposes practical and gradual approaches to social reform by scrutinizing the primary sources of labor money theories and practical experiences and reconstructs their theoretical relationships.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tsuyoshi Yuki is Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saitama University, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socialism, Markets, and the Critique of Money
Book Subtitle: The Theory of “Labor Notes”
Authors: Tsuyoshi Yuki
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80408-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78983-1Published: 21 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80397-1Published: 22 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80408-4Published: 20 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 278
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Political Economy, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Political Theory, Political Sociology