Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Libertarian Communism

Marx, Engels and the Political Economy of Freedom

  • Book
  • © 2007

Overview

Authors:
  1. Ernesto Screpanti
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. A Theory of Welfare?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Communitarian Communism

      • Ernesto Screpanti
      Pages 3-25

    3. The Communism of Abundance

      • Ernesto Screpanti
      Pages 26-58

  3. A Theory of Freedom

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Freedom and the Individual

      • Ernesto Screpanti
      Pages 61-106

    3. The Emancipation of Labour

      • Ernesto Screpanti
      Pages 107-140

  4. A Reformulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Foundations of the Liberation Theory

      • Ernesto Screpanti
      Pages 143-155

    3. The Politics of Communism

      • Ernesto Screpanti
      Pages 156-169

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 170-205
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Central to this book is a discussion of the notion of freedom in Marx and Engel's work. The book argues that the libertarian foundations of political economy were present in Marx's and Engel's work and utilizes contemporary theories of freedom to reinterpret and analyse their original work.

Reviews

'It is a book that needed writing. Its overall conception is outstanding, especially for the emphasis placed on communism as a real movement of individuals engaged in the practice of emancipation. Also the rejection of all distributionist explanations of communism is fundamental.' - Howard Engelskirchen

'Libertarian communism is an excellent idea for a book and one which is well executed. I think it can have a real impact in progressive circles.' - Gerald Levy

About the author

ERNESTO SCREPANTI is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Siena, Italy. He has published extensively on the institutions of capitalism, the history and methodology of economics, the theory of value and the theory of freedom. His recent publications include The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism, 'Freedom and Social Goods: Rethinking Marx's Theory of Communism', in Rethinking Marxism, An Outline of the History of Economic Thought (with S. Zamagni) and 'Taxation, Social Goods, and the Distribution of Freedom' in Metroeconomica.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation