Rethinking the Alternative to Capitalism
Rethinking the Alternative to Capitalism

Summary/Abstract: This essay is a polemic with Peter Hudis’s paper Yes, There Is An Alternative – And It Can Be Found in Marx in the context of his broader conception (Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill 2013)). The author analyses the mentioned proposition and its ability to answer to the following questions – the “classical” one (Did Marx develop an alternative to capitalism?) and the “contemporary” one (Did Marx develop an alternative to capitalism, which matters for us?). According to the author orders constituted by both of these questions are disturbingly melted in Hudis work.This essay is a polemic with Peter Hudis’s paper Yes, There Is An Alternative – And It Can Be Found in Marx in the context of his broader conception (Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill 2013)). The author analyses the mentioned proposition and its ability to answer to the following questions – the “classical” one (Did Marx develop an alternative to capitalism?) and the “contemporary” one (Did Marx develop an alternative to capitalism, which matters for us?). According to the author orders constituted by both of these questions are disturbingly melted in Hudis work.

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