Libertarian Communism: Marx Engels and the Political Economy of Freedom

LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM SUMMARY Part 1. A theory of welfare? 1. Communitarian communism Marx and Engels as moralists Egalitarian justice The New Man The Hegelian origins of Marx's New Man The dialectics of communism 2. The communism of abundance Marx and Engels as a-moralists Against utopian socialism The Land of Cockaigne A man rich in needs A digression: ‘English communism’ Part 2. A theory of freedom 3. Freedom and the individual The three faces of Marx The individualist foundations of communism Social structure and individual agency Society and the individual in Hegel and Marx Which freedoms? What is freedom? 4. The emancipation of labour Self-management of the producers To each according to his needs True democracy The dictatorship of the proletariat and universal suffrage The liberation movement Part 3. A reformulation 5. Foundations of the liberation theory ‘Possibility means freedom’ Freedom in the production sphere Freedom in the consumption sphere Liberated time 6. The politics of communism Class conflict and the choice opportunities of life projects The change of production relations The dissolution of the State