In his book The Economics of Feasible Socialism Alec Nove criticizes the methods of Marxist economics as misleading or irrelevant for the task of building socialism and rejects the goal of Marxist politics socialism without commodity production as impossible of realization Any effective answer to his objections must follow the same procedure that Marx employed in his study of the emergence of capitalism In other words it should not start from an ultimate ideal or normative goal to be achieved but rather from the elements of the new society which are already growing within the womb of the old from the laws of motion and inner contradictions of the capitalist mode of production and of existent bourgeois society What has been the basic historical trend of capitalist development from the Industrial Revolution onwards A growing objective socialization of labour All the interconnected laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production the constant search for increased intensity and productivity of labour in the work place the relentless pursuit of new markets the pressure to labour saving technological change rise in the organic composition of capital the growing concentration and centralization of capital the tendency of the rate of profit to decline the outbreak of periodic crises of over production and over accumulation the remorseless trend towards the internationalization of capital all these together issue into this one end result

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